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 The thing is, the devs won’t do whatever they want, they’ll do what BlackRock wants. There’s no BIP that needs $1T, so it’ll likely be spent on nefarious attacks. Instead of being spent on impartial innovation to make the network stronger. That’s only one of the risks. In the long term it’s like Boeing. If they wouldn’t spend the $Trillions on bailing them out and had a free flow of capital, we’d perhaps all be flying around in individual drones. So in the long term it weakens the network. Luckily, this problem is short term. Bitcoin fixes all this. Because no one will waste billions of Bitcoin on something of no value. Because once it’s gone it’s gone. Can’t print more. In the meantime we should at least call things out that seem fishy.