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At least for Bitcoin, don't miners effectively control consensus? And they're less concerned with you using Bitcoin to store wealth and more concerned with recovering the cost of their single-purpose hardware. Your interests are actually less aligned with the people running than Bitcoin show than with central banks.



>At least for Bitcoin, don't miners effectively control consensus?

They completely control consensus when it comes to transaction ordering, but for other network parameters like emission rate, they don't have any control. If they decided to bump block rewards by 2x none of the blocks would be accepted by exchanges or merchants, and it would effectively be a hard fork. Segwit2x had majority miner support but failed because it couldn't get enough community support.




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