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> so basically, nobody cares about that particular area of centralization

except for anyone who cares about cryptosystems actually being cryptographically secure and decentralized instead of just serving as a thin excuse to drive hype.

> I think this role can go away though.

The eternal refrain of shitcoins is “I think we can fix this later”. That never seems to end up being correct.




There are hundreds of tokens and projects and burn their admin keys or otherwise remove centralization where greater decentralization was a goal

If it is a goal and a part of a threat surface, I care about it

If its not, I don’t care about it and it can exist as part of a gradient instead of being a line in the sand to complain about




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