https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/microsofts-ion-is-an-open-source-bet-on-bitcoinNajbitnije iz članka:
So, for us, Bitcoin was a necessary condition for success. The reason it wasn’t a super hard sell was that it was something we had to have and we knew we couldn’t own it. We wanted something that was differentiated and decentralized — because otherwise we could do this with a database like Azure.
Ako želiš decentralizirano, nema alternative Bitcoinu. Ići polucentralizirano je jednostavno razbacivanje resursima. Radije ideš full centralizirano.