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		zaidf on June 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and ... Distributed doesn’t necessarily mean “decentralized”. I can have a distributed database stored across 5 servers. It wouldn’t mean my database is “decentralized.”

rburhum on June 23, 2018 [–]

Fair enough. But why do you say Ripple is centralized?

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