Sinking is a process from top to bottom, which is also a familiar vocabulary in the Chinese context. For example, in the development path of Pinduoduo, the term is often mentioned. It extends its development tentacles to third- and fourth-tier cities that go against full development to achieve success. Sinking in the business field generally means extending the tentacles to the inactive areas, thereby driving the vigorous development of the entire organization. So what kind of process is the lower level? The sinking of the market generally refers to the process from first- and second-tier cities to third- and fourth-tier cities, and the sinking of power refers to the transfer from the upper layer to the bottom layer, essentially forming a distributed system, from concentration to decentralization. V|jaosnbody
An important feature of decentralization is power sinking
A bee colony is a good example. Decentralization is not a concept conceived by individuals, but an inevitable trend of social development. In Kevin Kelly's book "Out of Control", a bee colony is used as an example to describe the natural development of biology under the logic of decentralization. Grouping is a large-scale collective activity of bees, where tens of thousands of bees collectively migrate to another suitable habitat. In this process, there is no leading bee (queen) to command, but the bee colony conducts democratic voting based on the location of the worker bees' investigation, the minority obeys the majority, and finally selects a new location. This is completely a decentralized mode of operation, and the same phenomenon also exists in ant colonies.
The distributed systems that exist in nature have the following advantages:
- Adaptability: Every individual in the bee colony will respond to changes, so it has good adaptability and evolution to changes in the environment;
- Evolvable: Individuals continuously adapt to changes in the environment and pass on adaptability, which will eventually realize the evolution of the group;
- Resilience: The distributed system has good flexibility, because each individual in the group is a parallel node, and there is redundancy, and the failure of a node will not cause the collapse of the entire system.
While observing the human social group, we find that it is similar to the evolutionary law of nature, and the distributed system in nature illustrates the advantages of power sinking.
Also in the Internet Web3.0, decentralization is also the most mentioned word in recent years, and we are most concerned about the sinking of power. In the Web1.0 era, it is more satisfied with the decentralized environment. At this time, the Internet environment gave birth to a large number of excellent companies such as IBM and Google.
In the Web2.0 era, although it has brought unprecedented convenience to the Internet, there are also some problems. For example, oligarchs control data storage and then master user data, various advertisements, endless harassment calls, and even the Differential price harvesting and so on, the current Internet environment has reached the point where it needs to be changed.
In the Web3.0 era, power will be fully sinking and will be realized with the help of blockchain technology
In the Web3.0 era, people no longer pay too much attention to the development of Internet technology, but to the rights of users, and the development trend of decentralization is the sinking of power, and decentralized blockchain technology will give full play to it.
V God, the founder of Ethereum, once classified decentralization, including three dimensions: architecture, politics, and logic, and divided centralization and decentralization from three aspects: physical, management, and logic. This is like a computer system. From what angle to judge that the system consists of several computers, it can tolerate several computer crashes at most. The easiest way is to divide the system into two and observe whether it can operate normally and independently.
Several significant advantages of decentralization:
Fault tolerance: There is strong fault tolerance in the decentralized system. The decentralized system has countless nodes, and a single system will not affect the overall operation of the system;
Attack resistance: In the blockchain network, there are well-known 51% attacks, but more than half of the nodes in the entire network need to reach a consensus to achieve. For a huge system, reaching 51% is obviously not realistic and costly. In a centralized system, only a single node needs to be attacked, which is easy to achieve.
Collusion prevention: In the blockchain network, democratic voting is needed to reach a consensus. In a centralized system, collusion and conspiracy are more likely to occur to harm the interests of others.
Decentralized blockchain project operation mechanism and how to achieve power sinking
Consensus mechanism: In the absence of authoritative control, nodes that do not trust each other participate in the operation of the blockchain through a consensus mechanism. At present, PoW represented by Bitcoin and EC consensus mechanism represented by Filecoin are mostly used. I believe that with the exploration of blockchain technology in the future, more mechanisms will emerge in the future.
Community governance: Blockchain generally does not have centralized organizations and companies, so the way of community governance is the most common, such as developer communities or community voting to determine network upgrades or updates so that everyone can participate in decision-making.
The so-called sinking of power is by no means a rare phenomenon, it can happen to us at any time. Every participant can participate in decision-making, which is our expectation for the Internet environment in the Web3.0 era.