Quotes About Decentralization

The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites.

Bitcoin has the potential to destroy credit cards and banks as we know it. Maybe that is a good thing or a bad thing, but I like the idea that if someone needs to remit payments, they can do it without being gouged.

The blockchain symbolizes a shift in power from the centers to the edges of the networks.

Blockchains will drop search costs, causing a kind of decomposition that allows you to have markets of entities that are horizontally segregated and vertically segregated.

If bitcoin is more expensive or slower than traditional financial systems, people aren't going to use it.

It will take time for the idea of decentralized trust through computation to become a part of mainstream consciousness, and until then, the idea creates cognitive dissonance for those accustomed to centralized trust systems.

I don't think the federal government should be a part of everything. I think that governing should be done state-by-state... so that you can tailor your governing to the people's needs.

Decentralization, dear

Control of anything essential to life should be decentralized and paralleled so that if one machine fails, another takes over.

Things today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other.

I want to bring accountability to the federal government. I want the federal government to respect the states.

I think a revolution can survive without single centralized leadership.

from local than national authority.

I do think that overall blockchains are likely to be a much more powerful force for good than evil.

For people who invest in bitcoin, the allure is precisely that: It's not backed by a central government. So it's not manipulatable by central government.

I believe the role of the government is too big. Society must be more decentralized.

I believe in decentralized democracy.

Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.

If Ripple as a company went away, XRP would continue to trade. To me, that's the definition of decentralization.

When it comes to our public services, decentralisation means giving power back to those on the front line - our doctors, nurses, teachers and physiotherapists, and our locally elected officials.

Our country needs Federalism so that there will be devolution of power, and no other tribes will live at the expense of other.

While it has wonderful appeal, decentralization turns out to be a very slippery concept. How can it have any importance in a society thoroughly enmeshed in centralized patterns?

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

This has never happened before—trusted transactions directly between two or more parties, authenticated by mass collaboration and powered by collective self-interests, rather than by large corporations motivated by profit. It