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Re:George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society by staunch on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:31AM (#16238183)
"Historical evidence" does not exist! There are new decentralized protocols being launched every ~day now. This is how decentralization really works, it's crazy and wild, and not at all planned by anyone.

Even just an evolved version of this, a ten thousand centralized internet currency marketplace, would constitute a decentralized internet currency system. And this is probably the weakest system that could result.

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Re:George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society by Dumbdo on Friday January 26, 2018 @06:00AM (#16238285)
> There are new decentralized protocols being launched every ~day now

That may be true, but why does it matter if there's no adoption? As the guy you replied to pointed out, there's no incentive to use a decentralized system for the average user as it's more inefficient and slower by design.

I'm not saying that I'm not interested in decentralized systems, I'm simply arguing that there's no incentive to use them except for a few people whose interest in privacy is very high.

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