Not only is mining centralized, but the big holders are fairly centralized. How robust is this thing really if the authoritarian government the pools run in de

Not only is mining centralized, but the big holders are fairly centralized. How robust is this thing really if the authoritarian government the pools run in decides to shut it down? Value would go way down and the network would be in a very weird unsecured state. It's entirely possible the network is at the whims of some bureaucrat deciding that should happen, which is one of the weird things about cryptos.