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by hoosieree 3052 days ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-08/the-bitco...

A handful of actors with a controlling stake isn't exactly the same thing as "centralized" but it's close.

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It's also inherently "centralised throughout liquidity". Because it's both deflationary and risky, the amount of liquidity available at any given moment is small, so a willing actor with some money at hand can affect the market disproportionately. Look at the way Tether manipulated the price.
Not really. They're pretty different things.