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Except these are not at all the same, and most users cannot fork or participate in PayPal/VISA protocols.
by mattdesl 3y ago
Except these are not at all the same, and most users cannot fork or participate in PayPal/VISA protocols.
- AlexandrB 3y agoWhat difference does it make if they can fork or participate? The important decisions are made by Vitalik and a small group of insiders. Do users get any input on anything actually important like the Ethereum fork that bailed out the DAO investors?
- mattdesl 3y agoProtocol and client development spans hundreds of contributors and independent researchers. The discussions and development is public; just look at the EIPs, or even submit one yourself. Users (non-devs) have agency through the software they choose to run. If mainnet was seriously affected by some attack, users could choose to migrate to a healthier network run by honest nodes. This agency happens with every hard fork: the DAO, but also the PoS merge.