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This is a okay response, although the language ain't great. Half of Moxie's post were using the evil YC company OpenSea as an argument against decentralization

This is a okay response, although the language ain't great. Half of Moxie's post were using the evil YC company OpenSea as an argument against decentralization, which seemed strange. It's like arguing against decentralized email because so many use Gmail. The arguments against Infura etc. especially fell flat, as they are just proxies to the decentalized blockchain, the only value they provide is providing exactly the same decentralized blockchain data as your own node would. It's not as decentralized as running your own node would be, but to call it centralization is still wrong.

rvense 5y ago
> It's like arguing against decentralized email because so many use Gmail. Which Moxie does often do, including in the web3 article. I respect Moxie's opinion on (de)centralization, but I just have different priorities to him. I am personally more concerned about one company (Facebook or Signal, although I do use the latter) owning and controlling access to a platform than I am about perfect end-to-end encryption and forward secrecy.
ZephyrBlu 5y ago
The point is that when the proxy is a monopoly, it basically becomes the new, centralized source of truth rather than the actual decentralized source of truth. If 90% of wallets utilize the OpenSea API what the blockchain says doesn't really matter anymore. OpenSea is effectively the new source of truth.