Overview

Blockchains are politically decentralized (no one controls them) and architecturally decentralized (no infrastructural central point of failure) but they are logically centralized (there is one commonly agreed state and the system behaves like a single computer). — Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum

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The Meaning of Decentralization

"Decentralization" is one of the words that is used in the cryptoeconomics space the most frequently, and is often even viewed as a blockchain's entire raison d'être, but it is also one of the words that is perhaps defined the most poorly.

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