> Decentralized systems allow distributed innovation more robustly than centralized or merely distributed systems, and so they tend to outcompete centralized an

> Decentralized systems allow distributed innovation more robustly than centralized or merely distributed systems, and so they tend to outcompete centralized and distributed systems when they clash economically. I don't think this is necessarily true. The Internet started out about as decentralized as it gets, but eventually the Internet coalesced around a few core services - first it was AOL and Myspace, now it's Google, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc. And meanwhile, too many decentralized services have fallen by the wayside - anyone still using Diaspora? Centralized systems offer efficiency and convenience - decentralized systems have more moving parts and thus more friction. This is a hurdle that decentralized systems have to overcome in order to become successful, and they rarely do, sadly.