Meaning it's not from one set body of people. The act of moving authority from one controlling entity to multiple entities with a degree of autonomy.
Meaning it's open to the public to alter or innovate as we feel fit, the source code is available for all to see as a main rule of opensource, this way code can be double-checked and made sure it's not going to be harmful.
Meaning it's able to serve many functions since digital is code, and code is malleable, we can innovate digital currency to be anything we can imagine it to be.