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.

@polynya has been writing about this but the TLDR is for certain applications you can trade off security for scalability

Digital Transformation for the Financial Services sector.

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.

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"?