[vbuterin]

There's definitely ETH holders who have more ETH than I do, including those who did _not_ benefit from the premine.

(And there's BTC holders with more than 0.3% of all BTC)

[fredfoobar]

> (And there's BTC holders with more than 0.3% of all BTC)

And yet, they can't stake their Bitcoin gain influence in the network. They're just another user in user-land

[vbuterin]

What kind of "influence in the network" do you gain by staking?

(Keep in mind that in present-day Ethereum, the influence that PoW miners have in protocol governance is pretty minimal)