Very much this. I want to talk to the people running the servers. Consensus, Ledger, etc... servers. I want to know who owns what percentage of those servers

Very much this. I want to talk to the people running the servers. Consensus, Ledger, etc... servers. I want to know who owns what percentage of those servers. I stumbled into this question when watching people go through the development process of implementing blockchain and a few lights came on. It isn't clear to me that web3 could not actually run by the same banking cartels and that they are not just using web3 as a way to side step some regulations, insurance and other protections that have been baked into the banking industry over a long period of battle hardening and mishaps. People speak of blockchain as if distributed encryption makes it impossible for malfeasance but like any implementation of encryption the devil is in the implementation details and can render encryption into obfuscation by math. Coordinated out-of-band communication between the distributed servers could lead to collusion and that is why knowing who runs these servers matters and that is just the first step.