A visual guide to decentralization | New_ Public Magazine

Centralized structures can have virtues, such as enabling publics to focus their limited attention for oversight, or forming a power bloc capable of challenging less-accountable blocs that might emerge. Centralized structures that have earned widespread respect in recent centuries—including governments, corporations, and nonprofit organizations—hav... See more

With no centralized authority, the control of a blockchain system is distributed throughout a network. But is a blockchain completely “decentralized?” According to Schneider, summarizing Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, consensus protocols like Ethereum “are architecturally and politically decentralized, but logically centralized, since they ma... See more

A delegated structure, where, for example, an individual empowers her subordinates to operate with some independence, is another form of decentralization.