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by HarryHirsch 3170 days ago
The future of information technology will be in decentralization/anonymity...

That's what they promised us back then: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." Now, instead of Usenet we have Reddit, instead of email we have Google and Microsoft, and instead of bookstores we have Amazon. Even Bitcoin is centralized.
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nnfy 3170 days ago
I think we have witnessed the inevitable dilution of substance that occurs when the middle of the Bell Curve, so to speak, begins to participate in a social phenomenon.
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gtcode 3170 days ago
How is BTC centralized? Someone did decent research on this: https://news.21.co/quantifying-decentralization-e39db233c28e
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zdkl 3169 days ago
You can get people representing >50% global mining power in the same, small room.
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awgneo 3169 days ago
Who are they? The founding fathers of America promised Democracy, yet look at the corporate oligarchy in which we now live. You have to fight for this decentralized future in every decision you make.
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