On: 10 years of whatever this has been

[bradwood]

Middlemen implies a few (or one) centrally controlable group (or unit). BTC miners are anything but this.

Is a router a middleman on the internet? No. Same thing.

[Kbelicius → bradwood]

> Middlemen implies a few (or one) centrally controlable group (or unit).

No it does not.

> Is a router a middleman on the internet?

If that router is controlled by a third party, then yes, a router(entity owning that router) is in fact a middleman.