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What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work

Posted in critique, decentralization, papers, Research Notes

They seem not to notice the pattern: decentralized technology alone does not guarantee decentralized outcomes. When centralization arises elsewhere in an apparently decentralized system, it comes as a surprise or simply goes ignored.

https://hackernoon.com/decentralizing-everything-never-seems-to-work-2bb0461bd168

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