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Re:Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers by extropy on Friday June 14, 2019 @06:11AM (#20181779)
That there is a well established (if expensive) method to re-take the decentralized control should things go south.

Same for open source software, the best pieces are generally run by a no-nonsense autocrats.

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Re:Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers by emiliobumachar on Friday June 14, 2019 @07:11AM (#20182011)
Could you please expand? If the big Chinese miners go rogue (actually go rogue, take over a currency and actively tries to stop the larger public from taking it back), what recourse does the larger public have? Wouldn't they need more mining power, or an impractical fenced-off network that's still decentralized in some manner?
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