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The Meaning of Decentralization
Decentralization for Web3 Builders: Principles, Models, How - a16z crypto
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ)future.a16z.com
In preparing for change, many of us talk about decentralisation (or "decent" for short) but that's an abstract word that fails to evoke just how thoroughly political a project it is. There is no technical solution that can produce decentralisation on its own; decentralisation cannot be technosolutionist and succeed at the same time. The "decent" pr... See more
Decent Imaginaries
After 18 days of diving deep into crypto, I didn't come out of it a decentralization maxi. There's space for both types of software, community, and utility. In many ways decentralized software really needs centralization: spam, fraud, content rights, powerful programs, etc.
Earth could this philosophy of radical and permanent decentralization ever be reconciled with the absolute need for a single, permanent, universally trusted ledger?
Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
This topic stirs great passion and while we all like the purity of decentralizing, sometimes "the perfect is the enemy of the good." There are excellent tools when you need incentives to be decentralized, and excellent tools when you can accept a more centralized approach. The answer for a well established DAO is likely to be different from a new o... See more