"All this ads liquidity risk which in turn reduces the value of the infrastructure."
Completely agree, and here's what's especially interesting about that comment: in the "traditional" (non-Bitcoin/ripple/etc) finance world, it takes an even SMALLER minority to block transactions.
From the perspective of "how many people do you need to piss off before you cease to have liquidity", the worst system on the planet is ye old bank.
Industry called out specifically: "Not only has the entire embedded industry as a whole not contributed a single dime toward our continued development and maintenance (despite our work being critical to the security of the millions of devices using our code: streaming media players, credit card processing systems, etc), the companies we've identified have actively violated the GPL and even our trademark. These transgressions have continued despite their awareness and our legal action."
Completely agree, and here's what's especially interesting about that comment: in the "traditional" (non-Bitcoin/ripple/etc) finance world, it takes an even SMALLER minority to block transactions.
From the perspective of "how many people do you need to piss off before you cease to have liquidity", the worst system on the planet is ye old bank.