Hoskinson might be wrong about the future of decentralized compute

Hoskinson might be wrong about the future of decentralized compute

Cardano’s founder recently made an argument about hyperscalers that needs to be addressed, says Fan.

Cardano founder's hyperscaler defense faces technical criticism - The Blockopedia

The Infrastructure Dependency Debate At Consensus in Hong Kong, Charles Hoskinson found himself defending Cardano’s use of major cloud providers. He argued that hyperscalers like Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure don’t threaten decentralization because they can’t access encrypted blockchain data. But I think this position deserves more scrutiny than it received during that panel discussion. […] The post Cardano founder’s hyperscaler defense faces…

Blockchain Decentralization and the Hyperscaler Dependency Problem

At Consensus in Hong Kong, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson defended blockchains growing reliance on hyperscalers like Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, arguing that advanced cryptography, multi-party computation, and confidential computing eliminate centralization risks. While these technologies are genuinely powerful, the argument deserves closer scrutiny. Multi-party computation distributes cryptographic key material across multiple nodes, r…