With the emergence of blockchain technology and its use in the rise of cryptocurrency, its underlying architecture started getting a lot of attention. Most of that was focused on the public nature of the network, like the one used for mining and keeping track of Bitcoin.

There’s no denying that a big wave of decentralization is making inroads into the mainstream of our lives. One way to think about this is comparing it to how our society worked in the past and where we are heading today.