Explain how "government by the overwhelming majority" is consistent with "self-sovereignty"? Some people didn't want the merge to happen. It happened anyway. What about their "self-sovereignty"?
Again, you're just saying that you thought this fork was a good fork. And for the record: I agree, it was a good fork. But it was still a fork, and thus still a successful attack on the network. Someday, one of those attacks might be on your interests.
And your answer will be that you TRUST that it won't. But that is still an act of TRUST and not "sovereignty". If they want to steal your coins, they can. They've proved it multiple times.
So, getting back to the point this topic is about: does it really seem so odd that people trust Gmail? You have to trust people in this world to not mess up your stuff.
You really think that any of this BS rhetoric is flying?
> What about their "self-sovereignty"?
Self-sovereignty is not about "always getting things my way". Is about being able to participate in a system without having some higher authority controlling access.
> successful attack on the network.
A "successful" attack is when someone manages to subvert the system to do something for their personal favor. The system was not subverted. for the merge to happen, the rules had to be defined and followed by everyone. Fuck, the reason that the merge was postponed so many times is because they wanted to have SIX different clients that could reliably participate in the beacon chain.
> If they want to steal your coins, they can.
No one stole anything. The old ETH PoW chain is still there. No one's balances got altered. The fact that most people started seeing that as worthless was not "by fiat".
Again, you're just saying that you thought this fork was a good fork. And for the record: I agree, it was a good fork. But it was still a fork, and thus still a successful attack on the network. Someday, one of those attacks might be on your interests.
And your answer will be that you TRUST that it won't. But that is still an act of TRUST and not "sovereignty". If they want to steal your coins, they can. They've proved it multiple times.
So, getting back to the point this topic is about: does it really seem so odd that people trust Gmail? You have to trust people in this world to not mess up your stuff.