[latchkey]

Cloudflare, in general, is a massive centralization point for the entire internet. Picking a technology here and there and worrying about the amount of centralization, isn't that meaningful.

Here is another good one for you to ponder since you're new with blockchain... most bitcoin mining pools sit behind CF too. It doesn't mean that bitcoin is centralized though.

The reality of the situation is that while yes... there are a lot of dependencies on CF, that is not the same as centralization. The dependencies could change and give up what CF offers, or they could just route around CF to other similar services. There might be brief outages here and there, but it doesn't negate the core security of these protocols.

[sebscholl]

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I agree with a lot of how you analyze it.

I guess what feels odd is that while so much of the web is co-dependent on different products or services, that is still different from centralized vs. decentralized. So when a network is decentralized, yet the keys to it's main highway remains in the control of one person (or group) that runs a server and manages a domain, it feels a bit contradictory.

[latchkey]

The path to decentralization isn't binary. Just because at one point in time, the keys are in one set of pockets, doesn't mean that can't just as easily move to another set of pockets.

In my eyes, the critical thing here is that no single entity can do something such as double spend on the network.