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> Isn’t this always the case?

Well yea, that’s how societies work. Social hierarchies emerge as we delegate power to the strong and wise. If they abuse their power, there is strife and potentially war, and eventually the corrupt leader gets replaced with a new one.

The idea that Bitcoin or any given blockchain is “more decentralized” than what we currently have is profoundly flawed. All you have to do to control a blockchain is control its consensus rules, as the Hugo example demonstrates. All you have to do to control the consensus rules is control the developers... and developers don’t operate in some parallel universe outside of our governments’ control.

All that to say, yes indeed, Hugo runs the show here, blockchain or not... just like he runs the show in the real world.




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