From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EB532305 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 12:33:05 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail.help.org (mail.help.org [70.90.2.18]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 420DEE7 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 12:33:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.1.10.25] (B [10.1.10.25]) by mail.help.org with ESMTPA ; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 08:32:58 -0400 To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org References: From: Milly Bitcoin Message-ID: <558FE974.2050206@bitcoins.info> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 08:32:52 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] A Proposed Compromise to the Block Size Limit X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Development Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 12:33:06 -0000 >Also decentralisation is key, and that is something we can improve with pooling protocols to phase out the artificial centralisation. So how is the level of decentralization measured? I see many claims on this list that such-and-such action will increase or decrease centralization and sometimes people talk in absolutes such as something being decentralized or centralized. Some of the arguments seem to make claims without providing any kind of analysis or explanation. Nothing is truly decentralized and decentralization is just an approximation of having a collection of centralized systems interact in some way. I would suggest coming up with some sort of metric so these discussions can start from a baseline when discussing changes. Russ