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by carlosdp 2538 days ago
In theory, sure. In practice, the miner implementations are the ones controlling the chain. The only difference is, I can name the CEOs and leaders of many of the Libra companies, I don't know who the leaders of the mining pools are.
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Miners don't really have much control in the bitcoin ecosystem.

Also, the composition of large miners changes over time and can adjust organically, unlike membership in the Facebook coin cabal.