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We’ve been working with a lot of decentralized systems here at Akashic Labs recently. But we’ve sometimes struggled to explain them to people who don’t spend their days up to their eyeballs in decentralized system design. Today, we’ve happened upon a metaphor that we’re satisfied with (and not just because it involves cheese).

Let’s say there’s a grilled cheese sandwich that needs to be divided between two hungry kids.