: people believe anything. I mean, Ripple (xrp) is still one of the biggest cryptocurrency out there while being totally centralized and 80% of its token in the hand of a few founders.
In fact, people want "centralised decentralisation" (I mean, they invented "permissonned blockchains" to centralize something which had the only pros of being decentralized with lot of disadvantages).
Talked about this 2 years ago: https://ploum.net/2023-03-03-bluesky.html
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