# The future is a combination of centralized and decentralized systems

- **Speaker:** Unknown
- **Attribution:** uncertain
- **Said:** 2018-04-23
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Panel: Decentralized Storage (Block 2thefuture)
- **Watch at:** 00:14:27 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTHa7tr277g&t=867s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2018-04-23-the-future-is-a-combination-of-centralized-and-dec-glzj/
- **Cite as:** Unknown, "The future is a combination of centralized and decentralized systems," Panel: Decentralized Storage (Block 2thefuture), 23 Apr 2018, 00:14:27. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTHa7tr277g&t=867s

## Quote — verbatim

> User interfaces in decentralized systems, they're hard because you're writing and reading from the chain, \[and\] depending on what chain, it's really slow. So I think it's gonna be a combination of centralized systems and decentralized systems — you look at Coinbase, centralized, whereas Bitcoin is not... we can do much better, but it's really really hard. I think that's gonna be a big huge topic for the next few years.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On usability trade-offs. **Speaker:** likely Greg (flows directly into his answer about California legislation), but captions are not diarized.