Quote from: HeRetiK on Today at 06:10:35 PM

Quote from: FreeStreamer on Today at 02:02:49 PM

Yeah, but the Mesh Network is still free, secure and decentralized. The cables are not part of the Mesh Network. Although sharing a common access point to the world wide web the Mesh Network itself is still free, secure and decentralized.

Without access to the rest of the internet a meshnet is reduced to a local area network. Which still has its use cases but is not viable for any global applications such as a cryptocurrency.

Quote from: FreeStreamer on Today at 02:02:49 PM

Mesh is the obvious path of development to a private, secure decentralized internet development.

In terms of centralization the network infrastructure should be the least of your worries. It's Facebook, Apple, Alphabet etc. and their walled gardens and consolidation of data / content / power that you should worry about. That's where the centralization of the internet, the loss of privacy and sovereignty take place -- on the application level, not the network level.

Don't get me wrong, meshnets are great and I love seeing the many meshnet initiatives around the world. But they too have their limitations and are only a piece of the puzzle.

If it has access to the world wide web, then you can surf the web globally and use global applications on it. It's not a local web. It's a decentralized web peer community connected to the world wide web. This structure allows every peer to be their own ISP and therefore there it's free and secure. The centralized ISP is the vulnerability. You can also encrypt the signal between peers so that they are anonymous to each other.