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Centralized control planes can't scale — the internet's decentralized roots are the answer

Akash Accelerate '24: Official Recap (Akash Network)

“We quickly realized that you cannot scale to any level of high performance using a centralized control plane. The only way to really massively scale is go back to the roots, how internet was founded — a decentralized network.” — 00:05:08

Context: Keynote origin story: why Overclock pivoted from centralized cluster orchestration to blockchains (the “only data structure” enabling decentralized coordination) in 2016–2017.

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