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xorcist on Feb 12, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index

Governance is more than a voting protocol. Tezos is not governed by equal actors.

There is a "Tezos Foundation". They control 30% of all staked XTZ. They checkpoint the blockchain regularly to provide correct history.

ericb on Feb 16, 2021 [–]

It seems to me that admin rights to the bitcoin core github repo count for a lot more than a 30% vote.

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