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The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitcoin Self Custody (www.tftc.io)

submitted 2 days ago by cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

As reminder crypto are being centralized so it is looking more like traditional finance Coinbase holds over 12% of all Bitcoin and 11% of staked Ether.

https://coinlaw.io/coinbase-users-statistics/

[–] doeinthewoods@lemmy.zip 3 points 12 hours ago

That's everything of value. All a well decentralized ledger could do is make it incredibly hard to block transactions, change the parameters for total coin supply and dispersion rate. Don't know why anyone expected anything in terms of more even wealth distribution. Wealth distribution is determined by off chain factors. Factors no different than any other value store