Oddbean new post about login | logout could argue decentralization is the value prop and censorship resistance is a byproduct 🤷♂️
Just thinking that over - maybe we don’t care decentralization as a technical matter. We just care about censorship resistance? And decentralization is the best way we have right now to do that.
yea I mean I guess I can't argue against what you think is the value prop. value is personal at the end of the day.
Oh interesting. It sounds like for you, technical decentralization is an end in itself? Maybe I’m just sleeping on why I should feel the same, why is it for you? One way I’m imagining you answering is you just like the vibe of everyone working together to build something. I totally agree with that.
I might be incorrectly using the term "value prop", to be honest. For me personally, the hard money aspects are equally as important as the censorship resistance. And both of those things only exist because it's decentralized. In my mind decentralization is like the cornerstone that holds the whole thing up which is why I called it the value prop. but that's probably incorrect usage
The cornerstone. Love it. Yeah I agree. 🫂
Could argue they are actually the same abstract concept
Like how can there be decentralisation without censorship resistance? And how can you call something censorship resistant when it’s centralised?