An excellent post from my good friend Gordon Brander: Decentralizability

It points out that if you decentralize a system from the beginning makes it significantly harder to evolve, and might prevent you from actually making a product with PMF.

The right approach is to have minimum viable decentralization to start, and then grow from there.

The three components to meet the decentralizable bar:

Publish immutable data

Use universal identifiers

Sign everything with user-controlled keys