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comment by alpha0
alpha0  ·  2892 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Rise of the DAO

A blockchain based tech at scale is "decentralized" in the same sense that a large number is subject to factorization. Bitcoin is almost perversely designed to mask its unquestionable tendency to create centers of (computing) power under a guise of anonymous and decentralized protocol.

(Pre-emting the "fork it" reply, allow me the rejoinder to you to go and "fork" the social graph of Facebook.]