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TECHNOLOGYMay 14 · 01:34 UTCR/BITCOIN/u/Slevin_Old

everyone flexes bitcoin decentralization but ignores that half the routing network lives on amazon servers

A significant percentage of Bitcoin's active routing topology is hosted on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud virtual machines, which could lead to network fragmentation if hosting is banned. This centralization contradicts the principle of decentralization. The reliance on cloud servers makes the network vulnerable.

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