There's never a good time to decentralize.
- There's never a good time to decentralize.
- This is especially true if you're the powerful central actor.
- A decentralized and open system will typically run hotter for the same amount of functionality.
- The compounding network effects get stronger because every marginal new participant now has fewer reasons to not join.
- The "hmmmm if I join I'll be beholden to this ever-more-powerful feudal lord, maybe I shouldn't…" doesn't exist.
- The reason that there's never a good time to decentralize is the same reason there's never a good time to plant a tree.
- The short term has a significant cost and the overwhelming value doesn't happen until much later.
- This is the reason modern society optimizes for Gilded Turds over Grubby Truffles.