[bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn'ttemporary

Thomas Zander thomas at thomaszander.se
Thu Jul 30 17:42:53 UTC 2015


On Thursday 30. July 2015 18.07.40 Thomas Zander via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Remember when we went from single-core CPUs to multi-core (and 
> hyperthreading)? Developers were saying it was useless because all apps
> were  still single-threaded.  And now, 15 years later, there are fantastic
> frameworks to make this easy.
> 
> Same will happen with distributed. Any assumption you wrote above is not 
> inherent in the technology.

My brain went a bit to fast (dinner was being served, she made me close the 
laptop...) and wrote distributed above while the topic is decentralized.
Its not entirely wrong, even; Libraries or approaches that do distributed will 
be useful for decentralized systems.  ;)

-- 
Thomas Zander


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