[twblalock]

> In other words, if a group of users all run the same Ethereum client software, then it sounds like the author is considering then centralized by definition, regardless of the reasons each user decided to use that computer program, the fact that they chose the same implementation means that technology is centralized.

Seems logical to me. The motives of the individual users have created an outcome of centralization because they all use the same program to do the same thing.

[baddox]

Doesn’t that effectively mean that no decentralized network system/protocol can possibly exist according to this definition? Of course users have an incentive to be able to communicate with one another.