Ethereum

Not meaning to throw shade at any other chain, but this is why I’m a long-term believer in the tech behind Ethereum

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As Jason observed, less decentralized chains can still be valuable.

But an important question is: why?

If we better understood that question and its answer, then we'd be better at marketing our own high level of decentralization for having clarified its opportunity cost.

Genuine question:

If we assume that businesses providing valuable services and products to users is what will increase user adoption then why would a regular business care about decentralization except for disintermediation?

What is the real value proposition of building on a "decentralized stack"?

Digital Transformation for the Financial Services sector.

Other genuine question:

To what extent "censorship resistance" is applicable in a world where businesses operate within jurisdictions with laws and regulations?

Note - I support decentralization and censorship resistance as an individual. I just question what it means from a business and user adoption perspective.

Possibly because of shenanigans like these:

"manipulated by operators" - It seems to be that there are plenty of operators that need to be trusted to operate in Web3 at the moment if one is to build a "sustainable" venture. The time, knowledge, and resources to operate on Ethereum Mainnet (most decentralized smart contract platform) is too high. Not accessible.

Possibly because of shenanigans like these:

https://x.com/high_byte/status/1611136660296663040

Would you be open to discussing this topic further? I would like to know more.  

Is anybody else interested? If so, let me know, please.

There are great answers to these questions, but I've found the community to be genuinely unreceptive to them.

The only reason I'd claim to "know better" is that I came from a serendipitously cross-functional background and spent four years as a hardcore app layer researcher. Most others have been focused on infra.