I think most governments of the world have recognized these problems with Win85, and very few are willing to expose themselves to such risk (ie: by making it a national reserve asset). They realize that Win85 has substantial counterparty risk and control is concentrated with miners and developers. So it is not a very neutral nor decentralized asset as people claim it to be. I would also question the decentralization of the nodes. How do we know that every node on the network is owned by an independent person or entity? How do we know that Blackrock or some other large single entity doesn't own or control hundreds of nodes? Win85 is asking us to simply assume that each node is independent but AFAIK there is no way to verify if that is even true, since the nodes are all anonymous. That is a serious flaw. So much for the famous Win85 motto DON'T TRUST VERIFY. You've been taking too many black pills, my friend. BlackRock, or you, or me spinning up 1000 nodes on AWS is not relevent and a waste of time and money. Am I just supposed to take your word for it that the nodes are independent? What happened to "Don't trust, verify?" Again you make assumptions without evidence (that shows the nodes are truly independent). Maybe they are, maybe they aren't. But I'm not going to assume it or just take someone's word for it one way or the other. 1 and 2 (if true) is cancelled out by 3. Having power but failing to exercise it is not any better than having no power at all.
I think most governments of the world have recognized these problems with Win85, and very few are willing to expose themselves to such risk (ie: by making it a national reserve asset). They realize that Win85 has substantial counterparty risk and control is concentrated with miners and developers. So it is not a very neutral nor decentralized asset as people claim it to be. I would also question the decentralization of the nodes. How do we know that every node on the network is owned by an independent person or entity? How do we know that Blackrock or some other large single entity doesn't own or control hundreds of nodes? Win85 is asking us to simply assume that each node is independent but AFAIK there is no way to verify if that is even true, since the nodes are all anonymous. That is a serious flaw. So much for the famous Win85 motto DON'T TRUST VERIFY. You've been taking too many black pills, my friend. BlackRock, or you, or me spinning up 1000 nodes on AWS is not relevent and a waste of time and money. Am I just supposed to take your word for it that the nodes are independent? What happened to "Don't trust, verify?" Again you make assumptions without evidence (that shows the nodes are truly independent). Maybe they are, maybe they aren't. But I'm not going to assume it or just take someone's word for it one way or the other. 1 and 2 (if true) is cancelled out by 3. Having power but failing to exercise it is not any better than having no power at all.

I think most governments of the world have recognized these problems with Win85, and very few are willing to expose themselves to such risk (ie: by making it a national reserve asset). They realize that Win85 has substantial counterparty risk and control is concentrated with miners and developers. So it is not a very neutral nor decentralized asset as people claim it to be. I would also question the decentralization of the nodes. How do we know that every node on the network is owned by an independent person or entity? How do we know that Blackrock or some other large single entity doesn't own or control hundreds of nodes? Win85 is asking us to simply assume that each node is independent but AFAIK there is no way to verify if that is even true, since the nodes are all anonymous. That is a serious flaw. So much for the famous Win85 motto DON'T TRUST VERIFY. You've been taking too many black pills, my friend. BlackRock, or you, or me spinning up 1000 nodes on AWS is not relevent and a waste of time and money. Am I just supposed to take your word for it that the nodes are independent? What happened to "Don't trust, verify?" Again you make assumptions without evidence (that shows the nodes are truly independent). Maybe they are, maybe they aren't. But I'm not going to assume it or just take someone's word for it one way or the other. 1 and 2 (if true) is cancelled out by 3. Having power but failing to exercise it is not any better than having no power at all.

I think most governments of the world have recognized these problems with Win85, and very few are willing to expose themselves to such risk (ie: by making it a national reserve asset). They realize that Win85 has substantial counterparty risk and control is concentrated with miners and developers. So it is not a very neutral nor decentralized asset as people claim it to be. I would also question the decentralization of the nodes. How do we know that every node on the network is owned by an independent person or entity? How do we know that Blackrock or some other large single entity doesn't own or control hundreds of nodes? Win85 is asking us to simply assume that each node is independent but AFAIK there is no way to verify if that is even true, since the nodes are all anonymous. That is a serious flaw. So much for the famous Win85 motto DON'T TRUST VERIFY. You've been taking too many black pills, my friend. BlackRock, or you, or me spinning up 1000 nodes on AWS is not relevent and a waste of time and money. Am I just supposed to take your word for it that the nodes are independent? What happened to "Don't trust, verify?" Again you make assumptions without evidence (that shows the nodes are truly independent). Maybe they are, maybe they aren't. But I'm not going to assume it or just take someone's word for it one way or the other. 1 and 2 (if true) is cancelled out by 3. Having power but failing to exercise it is not any better than having no power at all.