Very curious. I'll go point by point. > while anyone can join the Ethereum or Bitcoin network, you can only join if you agree to follow the same protocol that

Very curious. I'll go point by point. > while anyone can join the Ethereum or Bitcoin network, you can only join if you agree to follow the same protocol that all the other nodes use. Just reiterated definition of the protocol. Absolutely irrelevant to decentralization topic. > The way this protocol is decided on is not exactly centralized, but it's not exactly decentralized either. Decentralization is not "I do whatever I want". It's "other people can't force their arbitrary will on me". > The entire blockchain world is focused on building systems for global consensus, but global consensus is a goal that is fundamentally at odds with the goal of decentralization. Once again complete confusion of terms. Global consensus is on question of property. Property is by definition a right to thing that excludes everyone else's rights to the thing. This you can't have two different opinions about ownership and be able to cooperate effectively. Thus - global consensus. This critique reminds me "blockchain + X" dynamic. You don't need blockchain if you are not talking about global consensus. You don't need blockchain for the use-case where HTTP is enough. > Ethereum is only decentralized in the way that doesn't matter — you're free to join the decentralized system, under the condition that you act in the exact same way as every other actor in that system. No! This way of decentralization matters a lot, since it deals with money. Go and read about people who got cut off the banking system as a result of political censorship. > I care about decentralization is primarily to avoid global failures Ethereum competes with banking system (global and local) and with great amount of other chains. Author problem is with notion of owneship / property, not with Ethereum. > If you're trying to run a DAO, why build it on Ethereum... ? Ethereum is a part of web3, not whole of web3. If you build your DAO on other chain, you will not have this problem. > It's much more damning to me that the fundamental technology these people choose — Ethereum and similar blockchains — is more centralized than the web. Author provides this claim while providing no evidence. And they even agree that blockchains are censorship resistant elsewhere in the text. I see no point in continuing. This article is a critique by a person who got a wind of some buzzwords and now think that they can contribute an insightful opinion.