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I will answer your question with another question: would a more traditional DHT with a built-in p2p consensus mechanism stop being decentralized because it has said consensus mechanism?

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I use the BitTorrent DHT all the time but I don't expect it to be consistent, not even eventually. With money you need something that is 100% accurate 100% of the time. Miners compete to calculate the one true blockchain. That smacks of centralization to me.

Which is why I said

> DHT with a built-in p2p consensus mechanism

The notion that a p2p network stops being decentralized because it has consensus is silly.

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