Introduction to Decentralisation

I love how most blockchain related articles I read pass from “baby-talk description of decentralization and distribution” to “PoW, permissionless, PoS, miners and mining” in a single swipe.<p>If I could understand those terms why did you bother to explain such basic concepts to me in the first place?<p>If I need to be guided throught those ideas, do you really think I can comprehend what are you talking about with Proof of Work? (Which is never spelled in its full words in the article)<p>&lt;insert face palm emoji&gt;

&gt;&gt; - Architectural decentralisation: how many physical computers the system is made up of? What’s the topology of the network and its geographical presence?<p>&gt;&gt; - Political decentralisation: how many people or entities are in control of the network?<p>&gt;&gt; - Logical decentralisation: does the whole system behave like a single entity?<p>&gt;&gt; The take away from Vitalik article, is that all blockchains combines these three dimensions into one system.<p>Actually, Vitalik states in his article that individual blockchains are logically centralized: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@VitalikButerin&#x2F;the-meaning-of-decentralization-a0c92b76a274" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@VitalikButerin&#x2F;the-meaning-of-decentrali...</a>. It depends on whether we&#x27;re talking about a specific blockchain or the set of all blockchains. That&#x27;s why I don&#x27;t agree with the position of Bitcoin maximalists; their vision is not fully decentralized. When you factor in the centralization of mining power, BTC is only architecturally decentralized. Bitcoin is not so different from a centralized system which has replicas in multiple data centers.

Blockchains have a single centralized view of data and this view is distributed worldwide with everyone keeping each other in check. Blockchains are centralized but distributed in this way.<p>Federation protocols have different, decentralized views of data and these views are selectively distributed with peers and distributed in ad hoc ways, and sometimes peers keep each other in check. Federated protocols are decentralized and distributed in this way.

&gt;“hypothetically”<p>Second word of the article and i almost stopped reading. Is this a sarcastic hypothetical, where what follows is obviously true?<p>&gt;This is an impossible structure for an organisation to function<p>So... Why is this &quot;hypothetical&quot; instead of hypothetical?<p>I suppose im being unreasonable, but i find this extremely offputting and intrepet as a very unprofessional writing.

It&#x27;s weird that decentralized architectures are becoming what the racoons and quants are now flocking to via means of block chain via means of cryptocurrency. Seems like they are getting pulled down the buzz word rabbit hole and we are the only ones the wiser

I call writing “code for the human compiler”. That code should address the knowledge level of reader. No general purpose article can get that right

Oh, it was blockchain again. I tought it would be about the political practice.