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by danielrhodes 1751 days ago
This is what happens to most decentralized services. They are hard and wonky to use. People need help using them, corporations need reliability. And hence come centralized services to help sort it out.

Examples:

* Cash -> Bank Deposit Account

* Email (host your own mail server) -> Gmail

* Rack your own server -> AWS

* Everybody is a DNS node -> Root Servers/ISPs/Cloudflare/OpenDNS, etc.

* BitTorrent -> Pirate Bay

* Git -> GitHub

* Bitcoin -> Coinbase