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Practitioners hate the cloud platform of Internet giants, because it makes data storage not decentralized enough; they hate the emergence of monopoly giants in the industry, because it makes the industry structure not decentralized enough; Decentralization, and even hate working in one office, because it makes peoples activities not decentralized enough... Now many practitioners words and deeds are a little centralized, and they will look forward and backward with trepidation, for fear of being caught by the outside world. Grab the handle and criticize the stink.
So, what exactly is decentralization? What is its essence?
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It was mentioned in the article that decentralization is not a subjective trend promoted by people, nor is it a false proposition that blockchain practitioners wantonly advocate, but an objective and inevitable result of economic and technological development. In other words , The trend of decentralization in society is the result of everyone voting with their feet under the current situation, and it is not transferred by peoples subjective will.
If you don’t believe me, let’s look back at the technological products before the explosion of the blockchain industry—the abundance of civilian cars has enabled more and more people to participate in passenger transportation services that only passenger transportation and taxi companies could engage in in the past Among them, the decentralization of driving services has been realized; a smart phone for each person has the opportunity to record the world around them with a lens, and the decentralization of photography and video rights has been realized; the Internet extending in all directions makes everyone An individual can have the opportunity to make his own voice, thus realizing the decentralization of the right to speak; and the popularity of the e-commerce platform is to allow those who have the ability and intention to open a store to have the opportunity to run their own business, and then achieve To ensure the decentralization of the right to open a store...From the above several cases, it is not difficult to see that the phenomenon of decentralization has been ubiquitous long before the last round of bull market and Satoshi Nakamotos Bitcoin white paper became famous. Why is there such a situation?On this point, the author has previously
It is slightly mentioned in: For individuals, the biggest benefits brought by digital technology and digital economy are two points: one is to concentrate some of the costs that hindered their actions in the past to centralized giants, such as sharing economy. Time-sharing leasing can make many people no longer need to carry all kinds of necessities; the second is to disperse various rights and interests to individual hands, such as the passenger transportation rights of car owners mentioned above, smartphone ownership, etc. Owners right to take pictures, Internet users right to speak, and goods and service providers right to open a store...
In other words, no matter what kind of decentralization, its essence actually refers to the sinking of various powers from top-level centralized institutions to grass-roots individuals. As long as the development of economy and technology continues to benefit For every group or individual with a smaller granularity, this sinking trend will not stop. The decentralization advocated by the blockchain is actually just one of the countless decentralized powers in this wave of technology-that is, the right to coin (or the right to record information), in other words, Blockchain digital currency, including Bitcoin, is not the first decentralized product, and it will definitely not be the last decentralized product.
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The Boundary of Freedom: Any Decentralization Has Limits"decentralized"However, we should also note that although theoretically speaking,
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The ultimate is to sink power into the hands of everyone, but in reality, since the proper use of any power is inseparable from the users good professionalism and morality, from the perspective of the longitudinal section, the power of There is a bottom line for many sinking ranges. On the other hand, from the perspective of looking down horizontally, it shows that the degree of decentralization is limited (that is, what many people often call multi-centralization).
If some power is allowed to continue to sink vertically, that is, to continue to decentralize the industry positively, it is likely to lead to some uncontrollable situations, such as the well-known passenger transport rights (that is, online car-hailing rights) ), this kind of power to provide passenger transport services can only sink to the level of car owners who have a drivers license and are of good character. If it breaks through this bottom line and continues to sink, the probability of various online car-hailing atrocities last year will increase sharply .By the way, as the so-called interlacing is like a mountain, because different industries have different requirements for the professionalism of power users, the maximum sinking degree of different powers is often different, and the degree of decentralization that they can tolerate is also different. For example, the sinking of photography rights, because the negative impact of a single video itself on society is generally not too great, even if it is not professional or random shooting, there may be nothing wrong with it. There is often no problem with this kind of power sinking into everyones hands.But for things like blockchain minting rights, if it sinks into the hands of those who are not objective enough or subjectively irresponsible, the digital currency market will see a lot of money-making and deceiving projects. Under such circumstances, the coinage right can only sink to those individuals or teams with both professionalism, marketing and morality (that is, the author previously
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However, it is a pity that many people do not have an objective and correct understanding of the matter of decentralization is limited. When it comes to reality, they just like to go to extremes. When they first came into contact with blockchain and digital currency, they believed that the astonishing price increase of this new thing largely came from the distributed minting power, so whenever there was a turmoil in the supervision, they would shout ideals and freedom with great resistance It seems that all of them are anarchists; as a result, after the collapse of air coins and altcoins and their own interests being damaged, they threw down the banner of decentralization that was waving before, and cried everywhere why the master Qingtian didnt care Take care of this wild land outside the law.
Figure: Compared with the decentralized concept of everyone is the center, the multi-centered concept of qualified people as the center is actually more realistic and feasible.
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Nevertheless, even if power cannot sink without limit and decentralization cannot be too distributed, it does not mean that relevant measures are meaningless. The decentralization of minting power represented by Bitcoin and the blockchain may be difficult to completely sink into the hands of each individual as Satoshi Nakamoto imagined, but it uses the word decentralization and related The concept of freedom has been rooted in the hearts of countless investors and practitioners. Let them have a clearer understanding of the issue of whose power should be in the future.
