This might be a political stance, but it's not exactly a radical one: > Tech that mediates a relationship between two users should not give special powers to a

This might be a political stance, but it's not exactly a radical one: > Tech that mediates a relationship between two users should not give special powers to a third party. It's not anti-government, it's anti-tampering. I'm most concerned with government tampering, but that's just me. I can exchange tokens with somebody who is concerned with alien tampering (something I don't worry about in the slightest) and we can all disagree about the "why" while still agreeing on the "what". Maybe there's a subset of users that would prefer to have some authority they can appeal to when something goes wrong. That's fine, crypto isn't for them right now. But I suspect that those authorities will eventually abuse their position of trust. When it happens, I hope crypto is a nice enough place for them to turn to. As it stands there's a lot of work to do for that to be the case.