Ethereum Services Are Centralized
Echoing the other comments, this is a pretty naive understanding of how a general purpose smart contract blockchain works and the incentive models involved that keep the kind of censorship described here from happening. They also don&#x27;t seem to fully grasp how smart contracts that are in-fact decentralized work, and are cherry-picking the ones that have an authoritarian controller because of the nascency of the technology.<p>The article isn&#x27;t really detailed at all, so it&#x27;s hard to know where to start with why these &quot;services&quot; aren&#x27;t in fact &quot;centralized.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s effectively the equivalent of someone saying &quot;you can&#x27;t keep your password secure from hackers if you store it in a database, if someone hacks it then they can steal it and use every site you used that password on&quot;: it&#x27;s just obviously false to people who know how this works, but now I have to explain how hashing works and such.<p>I&#x27;d just encourage reading up on how Ethereum transaction mining works before just taking the article&#x27;s claims at face value.