Keep in mind that Nick Szabo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo pointed out that "A sufficiently large market predicting an individual's death is also, necessarily, an assassination market." A statement which follows directly from the AP essay.
>Yes, I too wonder if these behemoth's realize they are likely supporting their very undoing by supporting Ethereum.
The vast majority of them do not. However, enough of them may believe that one way to stave off "the future" is to control the future.
>I very much want to see decentralization happen, and allow each of us to be sovereign individuals, that align briefly with one another as needed to make stuff happen that corporations currently do, rather than large structures with concentrated power.
Don't just think about "corporations". I think more about "governments". Remove the authority granted to corporations by government, and competition will keep most of them honest.
Jim Bell
>--Darrell