web3/concepts/decentralization.md

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# Decentralization
A technical and marketing buzzword use amorphously to refer to an unclear set of aspirations about a technology or community.
In information technology it refers to a type of network topology in which a system has no single point of failure and whose workload or actions are performed in parallel by multiple computers which provide a shared service.
The internet is an example of an decentralized network,
## References
* [@diehl_decentralized_2021]
* [@schneider_decentralization_2019]
* [@bodo_decentralisation_2021]
* [@zhang_aesthetics_2019]