While I agree with everything you said, here's an example of forced SSL being very hard to deal with. Decentralized platform, needs to be connected to nodes. E

While I agree with everything you said, here's an example of forced SSL being very hard to deal with. Decentralized platform, needs to be connected to nodes. Each node can't get an SSL cert because we can't force everyone on a blockchain to get a domain name. It doesn't matter that there's SSL anyway because everything's signed by the server anyway. The data the client sends is also public, so the worst that can happen is an attacker blocks a transaction. This can also happen with SSL. We could just distribute a cert with the node and hardcode it into our app, but then there's no point of SSL, we just published our private key. Yes, this is kinda edge case.