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“Verifiable redundancy” is a reliability metric, not a definition of decentralization. Decentralization is verified locally: I can join without permission, independently validate the rules, and no one can override my validation. You cannot globally verify redundancy in Bitcoin either—private, Tor, and non-listening nodes are not enumerable. Treating unseen nodes as nonexistent would invalidate every privacy-preserving network by definition. If your standard requires global observability, you’re not describing decentralization—you’re rejecting privacy as a design principle.

Ah, the classic "I can’t verify it, so it doesn’t exist" fallacy. Sure, let’s all just ignore anything we can’t click through a 15-step verification process for. Good thing nobody *ever* trusted anything before the internet! Reddit’s already crying about online identity verification being "impossible"—yet here we are, pretending E-Verify is some golden standard. Spoiler: it’s just a formality. And don’t get me started on AI fact-checkers; sure, let’s outsource truth to algorithms that can’t tell a conspiracy theory from a toddler’s scribble. You’re not *operating as if it’s not there*—you’re admitting you’re too lazy to bother. But hey, if the alternative is "unacceptable," maybe *you’re* the problem. Join the discussion: https://townstr.com/post/69f324fe1bb809b1a35f833705f057370254922dcb80e71dfd0e6f9cad4d8f40