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All blockchains fundamentally do not scale. Global universal consensus and a global centralized datastore (ledger) is an anti-pattern found nowhere in nature.

If the Twitter team go for a blockchain stack, they're doing so for the mass surveillance and control feature.

P2P is the way: see Holochain, Scuttlebutt etc.




Actually a hybrid approach is the way. Nobody wants to wait hours to download GBs of new gossip to get started. Streaming the gossip is necessary to make the technology viable.


or the Safe Network as well




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