Personality cults and decentralized projects

BlockchainGandalf

English - March 10, 2022 22:51 - 4 minutes - 4 MB
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One of the upshots of the tendency of human beings to gravitate towards centralization for its efficiency and perceived security is the handing over of control to a popular leader.

In this episode, I talk about how some of the decentralized projects out there have coped (inadvertently or otherwise) with the centralization risks inherent in highly visible leadership and personality cults.