kaal:claim:3782191-024

The widely reproduced diagram contrasting centralized, decentralized, and distributed networks is a shallow and wrong answer to what decentralization means, because decentralized networks are always distributed while distributed networks may or may not be under centralized control, so distributed does not belong in the comparison.

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Decentralized networks are always distributed; distributed networks may or may not be under centralized control. So "distributed" doesn't even belong in the same image.

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Preface to (2021), What is decentralization? A mathematician's perspective from Craig Calcaterra, p. 12
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Preface to (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782191

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explanations of distributed computing, blockchain, and Web3

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definitionalsupport: arguedfailure: distributed-decentralized-conflationfamily: definitional-ambiguitydecentralization

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