!cryptocurrency

> You all made a lot of noise about decentralization, and someone finally went and measured it for Bitcoin and Ethereum. Wait that's us.

> http://hackingdistributed.com/2018/01/15/decentralization-bitcoin-ethereum/

https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/952884970598682624

> "A Byzantine quorum system with 20 nodes would be more decentralized than Bitcoin or Ethereum with significantly fewer resource costs."

https://twitter.com/bcrypt/status/952950407960997888

> "Of course, the design of a quorum protocol that provides open participation, while fairly selecting 20 nodes to sequence transactions, is non-trivial." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://twitter.com/acityinohio/status/952950974183743488

> it's almost as if people invented the Stellar Consensus Protocol

https://twitter.com/bcrypt/status/953026106054995968