Quote from: friends1980 on December 30, 2017, 03:20:31 PM

Quote from: mindrust on December 30, 2017, 03:17:22 PM

Quote from: trust.no.one on December 30, 2017, 02:58:05 PM

No capitalism is not about decentralization. Capitalism has a number of bad and useless definitions, useful only for its attackers who want to dominate markets themselves, but the primary essence of real capitalism is voluntary exchange with a lack of coercion. Centralization happens everywhere, even in capitalist systems, and in the absence of state interventionism like bank bailouts, too much centralization can in fact lead to the downfall of firms which get too large and therefore too bureaucratic and inefficient. That's what used to be called creative destruction and it was great. Now the government just picks winners and losers. This fear of giant monopolistic firms overrunning markets has never happened, except when the state made it happen, which is everywhere now.

Decentralized systems are honest. Everybody can see everything, can check anything and see if something is going wrong or not. Most importantly it runs itself. That's bitcoin.

Centralized systems are closed to the external eyes. You don't know what's inside and they can easily be turned into a scam. Without the central authority, there is nothing. That's ripple. Basically a cental bank.

Sadly, if you like it or not, it's only the latter ones that have survived for centuries.

Not true. Gold is still alive. It's in hybernate mode but still alive. Main disadvantage of gold is that its hard to carry with you and it can easily get stolen and people can counterfeit it. Bitcoin solved all those.

CB's were dominant till now because there wasn't a better alternative.

Now there is.