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> In general, we deserve to have more decentralised services that are built on the principle of 'privacy by design', rather than 'trust by design'

What do you mean by this? And how would this prevent a similar bug in the future?



In a centralized system a central server routes calls and can make mistakes.

In a decentralized system like BitMesasge the likelihood of a misroute is so low that it would take a trillion trillion universes a trillion trillion lifetimes before the chance of it happening once was even remotely likely, given every atom in each universe were sending a message to an other atom each pico-second.

It's just not going to happen.




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