Is it though? I thought the "Consensus" protocol was just as decentralized as anything else and is mostly different in that it allows nodes to say which other

Is it though? I thought the "Consensus" protocol was just as decentralized as anything else and is mostly different in that it allows nodes to say which other nodes they trust. That and it makes more realistic assumptions about how important it is in practice to avoid history collisions. From what I understand, the Ripple people are only making libertarians mad because they're not opposed to making a crypto system which could actually be easily adopted by existing institutions which does not make them "centralized" by default. Being able to process more TPS doesn't necessarily make you centralized.