Does cloud infrastructure make Kaspa more centralized?

Cloud infrastructure can reduce how much latency varies across the network, but it also introduces its own centralization risks. When many nodes run on the same cloud platform, they share infrastructure and routing control — meaning a single provider's outage or policy change could affect large portions of the network at once. Despite this, physical distance cannot be fully eliminated by cloud hosting, and independent peer selection combined with the need for cross-region communication to maintain global consensus means geographic structure naturally persists in the network. For a beginner, the takeaway is that moving nodes to the cloud is not a free decentralization fix — it trades one kind of risk for another, and the Kaspa protocol is designed to work with these latency realities rather than pretend they don't exist.

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