📅 Original date posted:2015-07-31
📝 Original message:I have been looking up ways to measure decentralization at the moment.
There are some good discussions as they relate to Bitcoin but they are
scattered in different places. I just took over BitcoinStandards.com so
i thought about using that site to post stuff.
Russ
On 7/30/2015 9:25 PM, Raystonn wrote:
> Russ, do you have time to get started on your list? It would add value.
>
> On 30 Jul 2015 5:15 pm, Milly Bitcoin via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> These are the types of things I have been discussing in relation to a
> process:
>
> -A list of metrics
> -A Risk analysis of the baseline system. Bitcoin as it is now.
> -Mitigation strategies for each risk.
> -A set of goals.
> -A Road map for each goal that lists the changes or possible avenues to
> achieve that goal.
>
> Proposed changes would be measured against the same metrics and a risk
> analysis done so it can be compared with the baseline.
>
> For example, the block size debate would be discussed in the context of
> a road map related to a goal of increase scaling. One of the metrics
> would be a decentralization metric. (A framework for a
> decentralization
> metric is at
> http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/pnorris/Acrobat/stm103%20articles/Schneider_Decentralization.pdf).
>
> Cost would be one aspect of the decentralization metric.
>
> Russ
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