It’s been said that Blockchain technology is not as decentralized as we think and that critical decisions are made, not democratically, but by a small group of agents of influence often including founders, software developers, miners and other parties with a monetary interest in the matter.This notion is open to debate, of course, but accepting that this is the case today, would it necessarily hold in the future too? Especially when Bitcoin or Ethereum, or any other blockchain network, has billions of users and, for the sake of argument, plays a critical role in the world economy?Say Bitcoin’s network becomes the platform upon which most global payments are made.
