Right. There is always one single entity that has physical access to the nodes and this relation is relevant for the decentralisation governance. It’s totally irrelevant how many entities “own” what manages these nodes.
I therefore disagree with @BHare1985 that a DAO as explained in the medium post shouldn’t be seen as single entity as long as the finale outcome doesn’t differentiate from any other node provider constellation. Perhaps this DAO just needs some adjustments. Instead of being fully focused on the users investing in node hardware this project could extend its model to also involve entities that act as a node provider for this DAO to bring this two groups together, users that want to invest and users that can run a datacenter but have to deal with burden given by the high initial investment. Shouldn’t be to hard to achieve IMO.
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