Definition: Peer to peer

Network without any centralized server, in which each computer can be a client or a server, meaning that
it can propose all services such as storage, data processing, tasks attribution, information and data communication,
being a client itself by issuing requests. A peer to peer system isn’t always decentralized but is for almost every
crypto assetDigital asset based on cryptography principles. Peer to peer traded, on a decentralized network, thanks to Distributed Ledger Technologies such as blockchain. The user is integrated into storage and transaction Lire la suite. It also gives an advantage in terms of security because the network’s functions and principal data
aren’t concentrated on a central server but distributed on the network’s nodes, only an internet disruption could stop
the network from operating.

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