IMO, the answer is a clear yes. Making it happen is often complex and difficult, and it can occasionally cost you popularity points. But it's essential for safety, censorship resistance, and independence.
So yes, we should care A LOT about decentralization. We shouldn't toss it aside just because it's hard.
What does decentralization look like?
On Starknet, it means: 🕸️Advancing along the staking path (now at Phase 2) to make validation accessible to all 🕸️An open-sourced stack (hello Cairo! hello Stow!!) 🕸️Nurturing a decentralized ecosystem that builds a variety of tools for devs and users 🕸️More stuff! (feel free to add to the list)
Many successful crypto end-user products were built on infra that doesn't scale. So when at some point herds of users came in, followed by many app devs, infra got congested & users/builders left dissapointed.
Bitcoin soft fork that no one should object to: 1. Allows efficient post-quantum zkSTARK verification 2. Allows L2s to exist 3. Bans anything but the zkSTARK proof
No "Mevil", no jpegs, no "spam" on L1. You get scale, privacy, some pq-security. Thoughts?