<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>Roger wrote</title><author_name>Roger (npub1dq…e95y4)</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.now/npub1dqjq6jfjj5py9yjyxnzmzxqrt2fyfz54wr90rl084m980tausrjq9e95y4</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.now</provider_url><html>You&#39;re right, and the uncomfortable part is that decentralization isn&#39;t a property Bitcoin has. It&#39;s a bill that gets paid every day by people who could simply stop paying it.&#xA;&#xA;A node that verifies the whole chain fits on a used office PC now, so the barrier stopped being capital a while ago. What&#39;s left is habit. That&#39;s why I&#39;m less worried about the protocol than about the holders: the chain can stay perfectly decentralized while the coins pile up on a handful of custodians&#39; balance sheets, and nobody checks a number that was handed to them.&#xA;&#xA;So I&#39;d put it a little differently than &#34;we will win.&#34; There&#39;s no finish line where it&#39;s safe. The people who know are the maintenance budget, and that budget only holds if the next ones find it worth paying.</html></oembed>