Aave protocol blocks Justin Sun's address - so much for decentralization.

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Hola and welcome to my rant session. I've been away for a while due to some job work load, thankfully that didn't keep me far off cryptocurrency and blockchain happenings.

As you probably already know what's all up with Tornado cash, so there's no need going too deep on that, what's quite appalling to watch is how pretty infant most pieces of this ecosystem really is.

Sometimes I question my own intelligence and begin to wonder, am I sure I understand crypto well? Do I understand the idea it's selling? Or a better straight forward question as per the context of this article would be; do I really understand decentralization?

Apparently, Aave protocol integrated a TRM's API on its IPFS frontend, not to confuse you with that boring abbreviations, what that simply does is screen the network, place watchers that restrict/block addresses that has interacted with Tornado cash post-sanction, from accessing Aave protocol, Justin Sun happens to be one to have had his address blocked as he received some ETH from a random address that had interacted with the protocol.

So much for decentralization

I wondered, was there any form of proposal that was placed before this integration? Because when you're dealing with a so-called "decentralized network", you most definitely need to be sure that nothing gets implemented without the consensus of the community, every network of such has their own mechanisms to structure their decision making process.

But hell nah, I'm still searching and can't seem to find any. Point is, blocking an address from interacting with a system doesn't necessarily make the system "centralized", it however boils down to whose decision it was to do that. How was it agreed upon?

Sometimes I just don't want to hear the word decentralization, not with all this self-claimed decentralized networks, which are practically heavily funded centralized garbages, time will definitely put the VC projects/chains in their places, it's only sad that crypto is so infant and can easily be manipulate and taken advantage of with events like this.

Oh well, it's an enormous economy after all, give and take, don't just get caught up in the losing end.

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