EOS Mainnet Reaches Voting Threshold, is it Actually Decentralized?

EOS successfully launched its Mainnet on June 9 after getting through some technological rough spots but then took almost a week to reach the voting threshold to elect its “21 block producers”.  A pace which is leading critics to question not only the viability of the network which is supposed to be a model of efficiency and took in $4 billion of investor money to build but also the degree to which it will actually be decentralized.
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