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IBM and Microsoft cater to enterprises. Enterprises whose entrenched positions are challenged by decentralized systems. Centralizing a decentralized system is done either to bootstrap it (optimistic) or embrace, extend, and extinguish it (pessimistic). A corporation alone might not need a blockchain, but has no choice but to participate if that’s where the market is, and a consensus of participants (no pun intended) is who determines that technology (not corporate procurement).

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Can you please give a single example of an enterprise that is being challenged by a decentralised system?


I would say commercial banks are on their way to being challenged by DeFi and stablecoins on Ethereum. But it is debatable how decentralized this system in its entirety is given the biggest entities are centralized custodian coins. But still.. massive disparities in yields and flexibility of moving value around at will does have enough disruptive force that banks and the Federal reserve are racing to both regulate stablecoins and push "CeFi" instiutions into registering as banks themselves, while on the other end legacy finance is moving towards adopting some of these systems themselves.


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