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> Chia has somewhere between 300K - 400K full nodes operating on the network. That is objectively more decentralized than Bitcoin that has somewhere on the order of 40K - 80K full nodes the last time I checked. So I would say Chia is the most decentralized network I currently know of.

And Amazon has millions of nodes. That doesn’t make them decentralized.

We have no idea who owns the nodes, or what the concentration of ownership is for the top X%

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Chia's nodes are not all running in the same data centers and owned by a single company like Amazon's. To imply that is disingenuous at best. They are operating all over the globe in independently owned data centers and people's private residences. Geo-location by IP will give a fairly good indication of that, but even just a simple survey of farmers from forums, chat, reddit, etc will give you a feel for the heavy presence throughout Asia, Australia, Europe and the US. Also, you can look at the number of unique pool public keys to get a feel for the ownership decentralization. (https://www.chiaexplorer.com/charts/networkDecentralisation) While not perfect, people do not tend to create lots and lots of pool public keys. Therefore, one can be relatively confident that the network has a high degree of decentralization.

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