Been thinking about this after watching how quickly narratives can shift online when a single high-profile account amplifies something.
For example, when someone like Elon Musk boosts a topic (whether it’s tech, markets, or even something like Restore Britain), you can see attention move almost instantly. Not necessarily adoption but definitely awareness and discussion.
It made me wonder how this fits into Ethereum’s whole “credible neutrality” idea.
On paper:
Ethereum is decentralised
No single actor controls the protocol
Consensus is distributed
But in practice:
Social layers (Twitter/X, Reddit, influencers) still shape what people look at
Narratives form off-chain before anything happens onchain
Attention itself is still pretty centralised
So the question is does Ethereum actually solve the influence problem or just move it up a layer?
Centralised influence vs decentralised systems, where does Ethereum actually stand?
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I think it was decentralized. Since it went POS it’s kind of a theory of decentralized. My argument is most of these nodes are hosted in the Big 4 data centers. Instead of computers all around the world POW. Doge/BTC/LTC/XMR and truly decentralized. You can remove North American, South America and Europe out of the equation and those coins will survive. ETH IDK.