Fiat currency is controlled by the government over which we have a bit of power (for those of us who live in a democracy).
Bitcoin is by definition controlled by those who have the power and thus the money to mine. It's a bit like democracy only that the more money you have the more votes you have.
None of those companies even make a blip on global chip production though
Neither does TSMC, high end chips is just a tiny part of the number of chips (albeit an important and lucrative part of the market).
TSMC is alone at the top is because it's so damn expensive and the market is not that big, there's basically no place for a competitor. Anyone trying to dethrone them has to have very deep pockets and a good reason not to simply buy from TSMC. The Chinese might be able to pull it off, they have the money and a good reason.
Designing a chip is something completely different from manufacturing them. Your statement is as true as saying TSMC is such a stupid company, all they are doing is using ASML machines.
And please tell me, I have no clue at all who you're talking about.
No, of course not
We are ready to reunite Luxembourg any day now, better get ready to move to the be tld.
No, the GPLv3 changes nothing in this regard.
That doesn't really make much sense since salted and pickled foods are eaten up north. The more logical explanation is that spicy food doesn't grow up north.
Are the bacteria inside you part of you?
They might realize that increasing wealth inequality might not be good for them either on the long term. They are so rich that losing 99% of their wealth doesn't have any real impact on their day to day life anyway.
Trade with the EU hasn't completely halted, we still buy gas from Russia.
Wasn't this confirmed to be an AdBlock (Plus) bug? https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1746263759495077919
I didn't say it's perfect, but it's not zero power.
Proof of stake is arguably even worse, but the energy required for proof of work isn't free either (and that's by design, if it was free Bitcoin wouldn't work).
There is more than double spending. Who decides how Bitcoin evolves? When new features are added, hard forks, etc. How much power do you have over that?
https://www.bitcoin.com/get-started/what-is-bitcoin-governance/#what-is-a-bitcoin-hard-fork
How ever you turn it, at best it's a shitty version of democracy.
Fundamentally money is all about trust, and I, despite all it's flaws trust my government much more than a random group of developers and miners.