Well, if you want to add in code contribution to the mix aside from just full nodes and block producers, then yeah, every chain has a layer of centralization, but the thing is, the nodes and block producers have to accept those changes. With something like Hive, you are only having to campaign 20 people for major changes, because the one vote that rotates around doesn't matter. The only ones that matter are those top 20 whales that have ran the chain since the STEEM days. Most average users don't understand nor care, they just want to blog and earn their tokens. Most don't care about governance. On most other chains, when you have more nodes and miners in the mix, who is in charge of development doesn't matter as much because those changes have to be agreed on by the majority of nodes and miners before it can be accepted as the correct chain. That's how decentralization should work.
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I rest my case then. Hive is decentralized then.
👍 I'll leave you with that belief then.
I understand what you said... and I agree to some extent even with you. But I don't agree on the low part, because of "there are more into play then just witnesses", and also on top of that I know even lesser decentralized things... and if you consider a scale of 0-10 and if high is above 8 and medium is 4 to 8... then in my view Hive is clearly a Medium.
My point is, it all relative. But thanks for the coming up for a discussion. Always good to constructively add value.