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> I see several comments questioning the legitimate value of a peer-to-peer marketplace.

The problem with P2P is that it requires a much more complicated architecture than if you simply use a more centralized model. There's the old joke: I had a scalability problem so I switched to a distributed system. Now I have n^2 problems.

It is true that many architectures are moving towards a more decentralized model, however, they still have a central controller typically.



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