"At 52:02 Andreas speaks about why he changed his mind on the scaling debate, and now prefers not to raise the block-size yet.
He argues that if running nodes is expensive enough that only
companies do it, we will have a serious problem because companies are more visible than individuals, and therefore easier to coerce.
But I'm wondering, doesn't this equally apply
to mining? If ASICs are expensive enough that very few individuals mine coins at home, then don't we have exactly that problem? Why would it be harder to coerce all the commercial
miners than it would be to coerce commercial node operators?
It seems like Andreas' logic only makes sense in a world where mining is done on general-purpose consumer hardware."
