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The future of information technology will be in decentralization/anonymity...

That's what they promised us back then: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." Now, instead of Usenet we have Reddit, instead of email we have Google and Microsoft, and instead of bookstores we have Amazon. Even Bitcoin is centralized.



I think we have witnessed the inevitable dilution of substance that occurs when the middle of the Bell Curve, so to speak, begins to participate in a social phenomenon.


How is BTC centralized? Someone did decent research on this: https://news.21.co/quantifying-decentralization-e39db233c28e


You can get people representing >50% global mining power in the same, small room.


Who are they? The founding fathers of America promised Democracy, yet look at the corporate oligarchy in which we now live. You have to fight for this decentralized future in every decision you make.




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