The perils of a decentralized web living in the centralized world
Whether we like it or not, the decentralized web is vulnerable to the internet’s worsening problems. Luckily, fixing this should be simple. On Jan. 26, the internet came to a screeching halt along much of the East Coast. Email services went down; YouTube videos flickered out midstream; millions were likely affected, if only temporarily. But the outage, attributed to a surge in traffic, underscores the metastasizing vulnerabilities surrounding the way most of the world conducts commerce, consumes entertainment and communicates.The implications of such outages should be seen as particularly....
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