liquid is certainly more centralized, its a federation model so there are definitely tradeoffs, but different than other blockchains that allow similar functionality to liquid, liquid uses bitcoin and so shares the monetary policy of bitcoin with known supply and issuance schedule. I personally have never used or felt a need to use liquid. I don't think there's a lot of activity on liquid as of now.
lightning also has tradeoffs and has some growing to do in a number of ways. but again it uses bitcoin so at least it's built upon a solid monetary foundation.
as far as centralization of miners, well that's subjective but I would disagree with your statement. graphic below of recent estimation of miner distribution. Understand also that among pools are many different participants of different scales and geographically distributed and they can choose to move pools if they like. I mine with slush who as of today reports about 18k active users and 180k active "workers" which can be one or a group of asics. I could move pools right now if I wanted.
and as far as wealth inequality in bitcoin, I think the graphic above shows an improving trend over time. Which direction is wealth distribution in the US trending? Something like the bottom 50% of people hold less than 5% of the wealth, just a few rich people own more wealth than that entire bottom 50%, and the top 10% hold something like 70% of the wealth.
and also different, in the US the ultra rich obviously can exert a lot of influence toward their own benefit. Bitcoin doesn't work this way.
lightning also has tradeoffs and has some growing to do in a number of ways. but again it uses bitcoin so at least it's built upon a solid monetary foundation.
as far as centralization of miners, well that's subjective but I would disagree with your statement. graphic below of recent estimation of miner distribution. Understand also that among pools are many different participants of different scales and geographically distributed and they can choose to move pools if they like. I mine with slush who as of today reports about 18k active users and 180k active "workers" which can be one or a group of asics. I could move pools right now if I wanted.
and as far as wealth inequality in bitcoin, I think the graphic above shows an improving trend over time. Which direction is wealth distribution in the US trending? Something like the bottom 50% of people hold less than 5% of the wealth, just a few rich people own more wealth than that entire bottom 50%, and the top 10% hold something like 70% of the wealth.
and also different, in the US the ultra rich obviously can exert a lot of influence toward their own benefit. Bitcoin doesn't work this way.

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