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I believe it's estimated c. 10 individuals own c. 50% of Ethereum.

I wrote about Bitcoin, not Ethereum. There are lots of Bitcoiners that think Ethereum is a scam due to the large premine and larping as a decentralized project.

Either way, you're playing the role of a daemon here, whether you realise it or not.

And the devil you are putting on the thrown are a handful of billionaires with power and control executed by a machine.

The fact that you have to start using flowery religious language of condemnation appears to me an indication that you're running out of logical arguments.

Thankfully bitcoin has no army

That's one of its features, which proponents value.