# kaal:claim:3808873-009

**Claim.** Early stage consensus designs such as PoW, PoS and DPoS create a community belief system in certain foundational technology features that in effect inhibits higher degrees of decentralization, so suboptimal early decentralization becomes self perpetuating.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- early stage decentralized technologies such as PoW, PoS and DPoS

**Source quote.**

> For example, PoW, PoS, and DPoS, among others, create a community believe system in certain foundational technology features that in effect inhibit higher degrees of decentralization in technology.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization Neutralizers* (2021), II. Degrees of Decentralization, page 8

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

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**Failure mode.** Distorted Decentralization Baseline Lock In  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** consensus-and-security, decentralization

**Keywords.** path-dependence, consensus-algorithms, decentralization-degrees, community-beliefs

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