@CoinDeepDive @StraqAttaq @IOHK_Charles @JohnEDeaton1 @igcrawford3 @GaryGensler @brian_armstrong @jespow @bgarlinghouse I think there's a fundamental flaw at the heart of analysis like that. Suppose everyone in a particular town buys tomatos at the same store. That may make tomato production very centralized. ...
@CoinDeepDive @StraqAttaq @IOHK_Charles @JohnEDeaton1 @igcrawford3 @GaryGensler @brian_armstrong @jespow @bgarlinghouse ... But I submit that what people *do* is not relevant at all to decentralization. What's relevant is what they rely on. If people would have no tomatos if the store closed, then they rely on the store. ...
@CoinDeepDive @StraqAttaq @IOHK_Charles @JohnEDeaton1 @igcrawford3 @GaryGensler @brian_armstrong @jespow @bgarlinghouse ... But if getting tomatos at that store is just marginally more efficient than growing them yourself and everyone could shift to growing tomatos for themselves if the store closed, that is, the store is just a convenience, ...
@CoinDeepDive @StraqAttaq @IOHK_Charles @JohnEDeaton1 @igcrawford3 @GaryGensler @brian_armstrong @jespow @bgarlinghouse ... Then the apparent centralization of tomato production is really an illusion because people aren't *relying* on the same party. Using and relying on are distinct.
@CoinDeepDive @StraqAttaq @IOHK_Charles @JohnEDeaton1 @igcrawford3 @GaryGensler @brian_armstrong @jespow @bgarlinghouse Centralization is, IMO, when you *have* to rely on central parties to get things done. If you could do those things yourself if the central parties stopped, then it's efficient convenience and totally consistent with decentralization.
@CoinDeepDive @StraqAttaq @IOHK_Charles @JohnEDeaton1 @igcrawford3 @GaryGensler @brian_armstrong @jespow @bgarlinghouse Let me just back up one second. One can argue that there is a concept of short-term operational decentralization that this kind of metric measures. And I agree, it measures something and we can call that a kind of decentralization. 1/2
@CoinDeepDive @StraqAttaq @IOHK_Charles @JohnEDeaton1 @igcrawford3 @GaryGensler @brian_armstrong @jespow @bgarlinghouse But while that may be a technically interesting form of decentralization, it not very meaningful in the real world because it doesn't connect AT ALL with why we care about whether projects are decentralized or not. 2/2
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