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If we get fully cryptographic computation (I don’t know if I’m using the term correctly, but basically no one knows what you’re doing with their cycles), why would we need decentralization? Couldn’t Isis run their irc server on AWS if it was impossible to know who is doing what?

This is an honest question btw

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Computation is just a small part of the system. Payment is a big one - your account can still be flagged and taken down if they ban your credit card or equivalent. Another is public services: if you're serving a publicly accessible site, for example, at some point the data must be encrypted to be shown to the user. If they can trace that back to the AWS machine, the account can still be taken down.