Honest question: can that happen without users having to purchase ETH (or whatever the underlying token is)? My very limited understanding is that web3 is inherently tied to cryptocurrency and the miners have to be paid somehow.
We do not have mining (proof of stake), and have been certified carbon neutral (https://medium.com/ultra-io/ultras-blockchain-is-carbonneutr...)
This does not sound truly distributed. Like you might as well not use Blockchain if it's not distributed.
It's not thousands of anonymous nodes, but it is also not a single entity that controls everything.
We intend to build out a more decentralized pattern with more complex governance as things mature. It's a software project and as you all well know, you can't launch your ideal at the start. You launch what you can and you improve as you go. Decentralization is that way, too.
Crypto only empowers this by encouraging people to maintain their keys with a serious financial incentive.