re: 40% of Bitcoin Exchanges Fail; only 30% of those refund your Bitcoins...

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You seem to dismiss/dislike almost any centralized entity I have seen brought up to you.

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I would agree with your assessment.

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So my question is that if liberty is your primary objective, do you truly believe that a world without any centralized "authoritative" entity has more liberty than one that does?

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I'm not utopian. I don't pretend that a world free of government coercive violence will be perfect. It won't be. But there is a difference between collective institutional violence and violence committed by individuals or groups of people. I think CS Lewis sums up my thoughts on this quite well in this comment:

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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Also, do you believe the is such a thing as a world with no centralized form of power?

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I believe that that is the path we're on, and that we are slowly evolving our political and social systems to reach that point. Separating money and state is one major step in that process, just as removing political power from blood lines and giving it to a plurality was a necessary step. Sure, our current system isn't perfect, but it's certainly better than a monarchy. And the next iteration will allow for even more individual liberty. Decentralized currency is just going to be a facilitator that will help to dilute the power of the state. Will it happen overnight? Of course not. Will there still be violence and danger? Yep.

But ultimately, life will continue to get better as we get freer.