The Evolution Of Centralisation on Cryptocurrency Platforms. (arXiv:2206.05081v1 [physics.soc-ph])

More than ten years ago the blockchain was acclaimed as the solution to
overcome centralised trusted third parties for online payments. Through the
years the crypto-movement changed and evolved, although decentralisation
remained the core ideology and the necessary feature every new crypto-project
should provide. In this paper we study the concept of centralisation in
cryptocurrencies using a wide array of methodologies from the complex systems
literature, on a comparative collection of blockchains, in order to define the
many different levels …

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