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What if they build something bad for the society?



Yeah this is the issue, crypto is terrible for the environment and the preferred means of payment for everything illegal.

Decentralization can be good if you have an oppressive government, but if you don’t it seems net negative


>and the preferred means of payment for everything illegal.

No, that would be cash. Bitcoin is very traceable, I doubt anybody wants to permanently store a record of their misdeeds on the blockchain.


Then they become the next Facebook or Twitter.




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