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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

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.

gtcode 9y ago
How is BTC centralized? Someone did decent research on this: https://news.21.co/quantifying-decentralization-e39db233c28e https://news.21.co/quantifying-decentralization-e39db233c28e
- zdkl 9y ago
  You can get people representing >50% global mining power in the same, small room.
nnfy 9y ago
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.
awgneo 9y ago
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.