"Genuine decentralization" / and "consensus" are not necessary to make a useful currency.
There's also massive cost and risk with the currencies that do implement those criteria.
We should all be open to different alternatives that WORK, and not reject them out of hand just because they're not implemented in such a way that they have attributes we LIKE.
Dropping global concensus means you're back to small regional currencies. With centralization you get things like Ripple. Both problematic / unstable in the long term.
"Genuine decentralization" / and "consensus" are not necessary to make a useful currency.
There's also massive cost and risk with the currencies that do implement those criteria.
We should all be open to different alternatives that WORK, and not reject them out of hand just because they're not implemented in such a way that they have attributes we LIKE.