I'm tired of people thinking decentralisation means == "fair". Decentralisation has nothing to do with fairness, rightness or wrongness. In crypto (and p2p file sharing) decentralisation is used to avoid central point of failure, mainly it's used so the a

Satoshi created bitcoin as a p2p system not because he thought it would be "fair" on participants involved or because he thought decentralisation was to be worshipped as some "holy truth on fairness for everything" (like some of you are doing). Satoshi created a p2p bitcoin because he didn't want his project to he shut down by law enforcement, he had no other choice.

But now, people have taken the meaning decentralisation and started idolising it and twisted it to mean other things.

"Oh this project is good because it's decentralised".

"This project is bad because it's not as decentralised".

The word "decentralisation" is starting to awfully sound like the word "socialism".

Decentralisation is a technique used to avoid the network completely going down if authorities get involved, it's used both in crypto and file sharing. How software clients talk with one another in a p2p manner to avoid having a central server as the go between. If one node gets shut down by the authorities in a p2p system, it doesn't bring the whole network down and things keep chugging along.

No where in a decentralised network does it state in order to be considered "decentralised" the resources required to be a participant (node) has to appease the poor man's computer setup. Decentralisation makes no promises on fairness. Decentralisation is about network uptime and uptime only.

So I'm tired of all these examples like "Solana isn't decentralised because it cost more money to operate a node than on Ethereum" crap.

Just stop! You're making yourself look dumb and have no clue what decentralisation is supposed to mean.

Rant over