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Centralization is a natural state that evolves out of decentralization under competition unless it is consciously prevented by guarding members' power, while a centralized organization can always be conquered through its single point of failure at the top.

Centralization is a natural state that evolves from decentralization under competition if it is not consciously pre- vented by guarding members' power. It is clear how a centralized organization can be conquered—the single point of failure at the top.

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021), Basic idea, p. 7
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192

• decentralized organizations exposed to competition

mechanismsupport: argueddecentralizationeconomics

• generalizes kaal:claim:3782217-005 Where a DAO is automated around a single centralized point of failure, the work of decentralizing and giving m...
• extends kaal:claim:3782191-026 Centralization has two major flaws that inevitably lead to its downfall; the first is that every centralized o...
• generalizes kaal:claim:3782217-004 Any reliance by a DAO on a centralized feature creates a centralized point of failure that threatens the survi...
• extended_by kaal:claim:4900878-033 Distributing validation and execution across many nodes mitigates central point of failure risk and makes the ...
• generalizes kaal:claim:4855607-020 Decentralized collective governance without a central authority reduces both single points of failure and the ...

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