True decentralization will take time, U.S. presidential candidate Brock Pierce suggests, citing DeFi as a crucial stepping stone towards this end.
U.S. presidential candidate Brock Pierce believes true decentralization, in its purest form, does not exist today, and is not practical in the near future.
He told Celsius founder and CEO Alex Mashinsky in an hour-long #MOIP interview released earlier today that while DeFi, is headed towards decentralization, it shouldn't attempt to be entirely decentralized right now.
The crypto venture capitalist turned politician stated a hybrid approach including both decentralized and centralized control is more appropriate.
"It's not about DeFi vs. CeFi, or the version Celsius has, versus the version that Compound has."
"Half of the assets locked up today in DeFi are centralized assets," he explained.
"Most people just don't understand that. Anyone that calls it pure DeFi doesn't understand anything about the blockchain."
The entrepreneur pointed out that "If a court order was issued to lock up those assets" it wouldn't matter how the assets are locked up, those institutions can freeze those assets.
"I'm not happy about it, I'm just explaining that there is no version of pure DeFi today. Of course, we all want that, but we don't live in that world yet. The most advanced of us have one leg in the decentralized world, and one leg in the centralized world."
Referring back to his political approach, Pierce explained that trying to decentralize the U.S. government would mean taking authority off the federal government and handing it to state governments.
Brock Pierce: True decentralization is a way off
Published on Oct 22, 2020
by Cointele | Published on Coinage
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