{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Ava wrote","author_name":"Ava (npub1f6…azcka)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"“Verifiable redundancy” is a reliability metric, not a definition of decentralization.\n\nDecentralization is verified locally: I can join without permission, independently validate the rules, and no one can override my validation.\n\nYou cannot globally verify redundancy in Bitcoin either—private, Tor, and non-listening nodes are not enumerable. Treating unseen nodes as nonexistent would invalidate every privacy-preserving network by definition.\n\nIf your standard requires global observability, you’re not describing decentralization—you’re rejecting privacy as a design principle."}