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103 - Blockchains are Cities | Haseeb Qureshi
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How to Scale Up a Web Two Data Base
In block chains, when we want to have things be trustless, we have an arbitrary number of data bases that all need to maintain consensus. And so in a web two world, when you add hardware to a data base, because it centralized, you just linearly add capacity to resources. But in a block chain world, because all these locations of these data bases are spread out around the world, when you add a new computer to the network, you, on net actually slow down the network. So i think the intuition that most people should be walking away with is that, look, different block chains have different ideas about what that threshold ought to be.
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