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 And yet it hasn’t fixed mining centralization in a decade? 
 Maybe this is as good as it gets. 
 Then I’m definitely done caring about bitcoin. I mean sure some people just want the 21M cap and they’ll be happy, but those of us who wanted to be able to send value to others without being censorable…. 
 I'm sending value without censorship and care about the cap.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 
 I don’t buy for a second you’ll be able to do that in the long term if we don’t fix these issues. Sure the massive problems we have now aren’t materially trickling down to breaking the system yet, but are we building a Bitcoin for today or a Bitcoin for a decade or two from now? 
 From block size wars to fiat whores.  
 There is no such thing as untrusted. 
 That crosses the line into bitcoin-alarmism. 
 Why 
 It's all extremely extrapolated. 
 What assumption that I made is unrealistic, or even not-highly-likely? I mean centralized parties are already declining to offer services for non custodial use (see Phoenix). 
 I think enterprise AI will demand so much power the bitcoin mining will become less comercial and centralized abd more purpose driven and decentrized. 
 Humans aren't good at fixing problems that aren't currently affecting them. 

How many Bitcoin holders still have fiat in their bank account, despite the risk of censorship and confiscation? How many people have poor UTXO management because fees are still relatively low? 
 If bitcoin price keeps appreciating bitcoiners will have more and more economical power. Miners sell bitcoin in their business model. Self interested hodlers with their node ans bitcoin will become more economically relevant then miners. This can potentially shift the power balance.