There are no blockchain owners. There is just a blockchain, and consensus rules to what goes into it. People talk about the DAO thing as if it was just a matte

There are no blockchain owners. There is just a blockchain, and consensus rules to what goes into it. People talk about the DAO thing as if it was just a matter of calling some people and ask them to refund everyone, as if history could be reversed. What happened was a fork, and the decision on what fork to go on still required consensus building: those running ethereum nodes and who were against the DAO fork stayed on their paths and went on to call it "Ethereum Classic". As for gas prices: https://l2fees.info/ https://l2fees.info/ will show you that transfers can easily be done with a few cents, and Raiden is (finally!) live and able to do sub-cent transactions (https://medium.com/raiden-network/the-raiden-network-now-live-on-arbitrum-3d57fedf7961 https://medium.com/raiden-network/the-raiden-network-now-liv...)