the.com/distributed
nobody's in charge, which is either the whole point or the whole problem.
means a system where work, power, or data is spread across many independent nodes instead of living in one central place.
from from latin distribuere, to divide out; computing borrowed it in the 1960s when networks stopped trusting single mainframes with everything.
vs decentralizeddistributed can still have one owner, just many locations
bitcoin flexno single computer holds the whole ledger
tradeofftrades a single point of failure for coordination headaches