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    8 hours ago

    now your trust relies on your subject never becoming important enough that someone bothers to run 50%+1 of the nodes in your network

    Yup. Very well said. People don’t realize the extent of wealth inequality (and how ridiculously resource intensive blockchain tech is). If anything important were to be decide by a blockchain, the top 1% would control the network.

    More on wealth inequality here.