Decentralisation: Why Is Everyone So Obsessed With This Now?

Is crypto really decentralised or is it just slightly better than the current system?

In Episode #273 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: a blog post highlighting decentralisation issues, why we have collectively decided that servers are too hard to operate on our own, why this is not a binary issue and is more of a scale, not needing to have every aspect of your life distributed and why we were a bit scattered on this topic.

A big thanks to Bmasi, Dave Jones & Petar the slav for helping to support the show, we couldn't do it without you!

As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!

Timeline:
(0:00) - Moxie Marlinspike & Charles Hoskinson
(4:04) - Decentralisation definition
(9:43) - NFT's are not immutable
(15:02) - You don't get more power by default
(18:53) - People don't want to run their own servers
(23:38) - Decentralisation is a continuum
(26:46) - Responding to comments
(30:47) - Boostagram Lounge
(36:38) - The seesaw tips again
(43:27) - Web 3 is not decentralised
(50:32) - Layers of decentralisation
(55:10) - Sum up of our thoughts
(57:52) - Booooooossssssttttt


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