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Back: Massively scaling Bitcoin sacrifices decentralization, turning it into PayPal
“You can scale massively and lose the decentralization, and at that point, Bitcoin loses most of its distinguishing features, and you're left with a kind of PayPal situation With all the things people gripe about with PayPal.”
Adam Back Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:01 a16z Podcast | Hard Forks, Hard Choices for Bitcoin
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Back: Bitcoin hard forks require full ecosystem compromise to succeed
“Because of the nature of hard forks where everybody has to upgrade at once, it's essentially, you know, it's essential that all of the participants, including the users, the miners, the ecosystem players providing different kinds of services to users, that the…”
Adam Back Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:06 a16z Podcast | Hard Forks, Hard Choices for Bitcoin
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