To clarify: "distributed" and "decentralized" are different. "Distributed" spreads compute among many physical resources, but may still have a single entity con

To clarify: "distributed" and "decentralized" are different. "Distributed" spreads compute among many physical resources, but may still have a single entity controlling it. "Decentralized" has no single entity controlling it. Paxos distributes but does not decentralize.