If you conflate decentralization with blockchain then they pretty much are. All cryptocurrency is built on inventing new models of scarcity (note: this is independent of whether it's inflationary or deflationary, inflationary currencies are still scarce).
That said, I think if you conflate the two and try to bring all kinds of decentralization under the cryptocurrency/web3 umbrella, all you'll ever do is cause damage to any real efforts at decentralization.
Most of the internet is built on decentralization to some degree or another. Until cryptocurrency, most of those things did so by taking advantage of a lack of scarcity rather than trying to invent new ways to create haves and have-nots.
stormbrew|3 years ago
That said, I think if you conflate the two and try to bring all kinds of decentralization under the cryptocurrency/web3 umbrella, all you'll ever do is cause damage to any real efforts at decentralization.
Most of the internet is built on decentralization to some degree or another. Until cryptocurrency, most of those things did so by taking advantage of a lack of scarcity rather than trying to invent new ways to create haves and have-nots.