<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>Ava wrote</title><author_name>Ava (npub1f6…azcka)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>“Verifiable redundancy” is a reliability metric, not a definition of decentralization.&#xA;&#xA;Decentralization is verified locally: I can join without permission, independently validate the rules, and no one can override my validation.&#xA;&#xA;You 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.&#xA;&#xA;If your standard requires global observability, you’re not describing decentralization—you’re rejecting privacy as a design principle.</html></oembed>