> It's very clear that the whole decentralization tech angle failed a long time ago. I had a passing interest, but completely lost it around 2017-ish, when BTC

> It's very clear that the whole decentralization tech angle failed a long time ago. I had a passing interest, but completely lost it around 2017-ish, when BTC blocks started filling up. Decentralization was the original tech angle. Email, HTTP, the basic Internet infrastructure is all decentralized with only the minimal necessary coordination. Decentralized money is iffy when it isn't a real thing with intrinsic value like a metal coin or trading commodities directly. Everything else though can absolutely be decentralized, somebody just needs to be happy about writing open standards and giving people the means to have systems that use them.