标题： 加密货币平台的中心化演变 显示英文标题

标题： The Evolution Of Centralisation on Cryptocurrency Platforms

摘要： 十多年前，区块链被赞誉为克服在线支付中集中式可信第三方的解决方案。 多年来，加密货币运动发生了变化和演变，尽管去中心化仍然是核心理念，而且是每个新加密项目必须提供的必要特性。 在本文中，我们使用复杂系统文献中的多种方法论，对一组比较的区块链进行研究，以定义区块链系统可能表现出的不同程度的集中化（去中心化），并质疑当前加密货币的状态在技术和经济意义上是否真的实现了去中心化。 显示英文摘要

摘要： More than ten years ago the blockchain was acclaimed as the solution to overcome centralised trusted third parties for online payments. Through the years the crypto-movement changed and evolved, although decentralisation remained the core ideology and the necessary feature every new crypto-project should provide. In this paper we study the concept of centralisation in cryptocurrencies using a wide array of methodologies from the complex systems literature, on a comparative collection of blockchains, in order to define the many different levels a blockchain system may display (de-)centralisation and to question whether the present state of cryptocurrencies is, in a technological and economical sense, actually decentralised.