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    1. Sarah Jamie Lewis‏ @SarahJamieLewis Aug 13

      When we consider more complex systems, we must contend with more complex relationships between the layers. The nature of sybil resistance in blockchains dictates how centralization emerges.

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    2. Sarah Jamie Lewis‏ @SarahJamieLewis Aug 13

      If PoW is used for sybil resistance then some emergent centralization happens around Mining operators. If PoS is used, there is an inherent pressure toward centralization of distribution (or delegated trust points)

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    3. Sarah Jamie Lewis‏ @SarahJamieLewis Aug 13

      Many projects try to hide their centralization and couch it in terms designed to demphasize it's importance within the system. "We will move away from this implementation in the future" which you should generally read as (we don't know how yet)

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    4. Sarah Jamie Lewis‏ @SarahJamieLewis Aug 13

      And here we come the concept of Practical centralization. The idea that even if a protocol is designed with autonomy in mind, the way that it has been deployed/implemented has resulted in uneven power distribution. See: email (gmail), ntp (google, canonical) etc.

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    5. Sarah Jamie Lewis‏ @SarahJamieLewis Aug 13

      Practical centralization is a hard concept to grasp because it isn't obvious from reading a paper or protocol spec how adoption will play out. However, it is nevertheless something that has to be designed against.

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    6. Sarah Jamie Lewis‏ @SarahJamieLewis Aug 13

      Hard coded defaults/trust anchors, centralized upgrade severs, user preference, proprietary features, spam, ddos prevention...so many things can practically cause emergent centralized and given a handful of people uneven control over the whole system (and it's future direction)

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    7. Sarah Jamie Lewis‏ @SarahJamieLewis Aug 13

      We need to move beyond naive conceptualizations of decentralization (like the % of nodes owned by an entity), and instead, holistically, understand how trust and power are given, distributed and interact.

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    8. Sarah Jamie Lewis‏ @SarahJamieLewis Aug 13

      Decentralization is important because building systems that distribute power is important. Too many systems distribute work load at the protocol layer, but maintain power at the political or practical layer. Those systems are not decentralized. And many can never be.

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    9. Sarah Jamie Lewis‏ @SarahJamieLewis Aug 13

      Hidden centralization is the curse of protocol design of our age. Many people have become very good at obfuscating and rationalizing away power concentration to the detriment of everyone.

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    10. Sarah Jamie Lewis‏ @SarahJamieLewis Aug 13

      Adding to this confusion is that some power concentration is inevitable and in some cases desirable...having a singe team, and a canonical implementation is the best way to produce secure software efficiently. We should ensue those trade offs don' have unintended consequences.

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      Rich Felker‏ @RichFelker Aug 13
      Replying to @SarahJamieLewis

      Are you sure about canonical implementations? My experience has always been that they're horribly buggy and nobody discovers that until doing independent implementations.

      9:57 PM - 13 Aug 2018
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        2. Sarah Jamie Lewis‏ @SarahJamieLewis Aug 13
          Replying to @RichFelker

          True. Independent implementations are useful, and necessary. My point is more that without a canonical implementation any kind of convergence is difficult...although I'd concede that for some kinds of systems even that isn't true.

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