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No it is not and it never will be. There is no business model for it. The business models are in centralization and those central points have the money to make an unbeatable user experience. Decentralized solutions can not compete and will thus never gain traction.

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When we start colonizing other planets, things will have to be decentralized because latencies will become prohibitively large ...

Cryptocurrencies are a great solution for some reality. It's just not our reality now nor in the near future.

If we start colonizing planets. Anyway, even then it seems quite likely that each individual planet will still be very centralized.

Imagine being a colonist on Mars. It's not like it'll be feasible to homestead in the first few decades, if ever. You depend on centralized government for the very air you breathe. It's the very opposite of living in a decentralized society.

We will live free in the asteroid belts and Oort cloud.

Those will probably become the most militarized zones in the solar system when planetary governments realize the WMD potential of an asteroid plunging into the sun's gravity well.

I semi-seriously believe that addiction to connectivity and low ping times is the "great filter." When push comes to shove very few people would be willing to move to Mars because the internet there will be terrible.

what a lack of imagination. You could copy paste your argument changing the nouns and apply it to any open source endeavour.

Of course there is strong resistance from the powers that be, but to claim never is an incredible act of Hubris.

There is relatively very little money in open source. Also the scale of running a large application is very different compared to running an open source project most of which ironically are centralized in some way if not via GitHub, then certainly by the presence of a BDFL who drives the project.

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