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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by ericb on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @06:09PM (#26096117)
That's flatly untrue.
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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by xorcist on Thursday February 11, 2021 @03:05AM (#26099315)
How can that be controversial? They all had an ICO to begin with. Some of them have even registered a company or organization to back it up.
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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by ericb on Thursday February 11, 2021 @12:03PM (#26104052)
The controversy is in the language "started" vs. "run."

Tezos, as an example, is governed by voting and on-chain governance. It isn't "run by a single entity."

Ripple or Tether are, though, sure.

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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by xorcist on Friday February 12, 2021 @06:32AM (#26112534)
Governance is more than a voting protocol. Tezos is not governed by equal actors.

There is a "Tezos Foundation". They control 30% of all staked XTZ. They checkpoint the blockchain regularly to provide correct history.

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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by ericb on Monday February 15, 2021 @11:38PM (#26150992)
It seems to me that admin rights to the bitcoin core github repo count for a lot more than a 30% vote.
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