The issue is that we don't know how diverse that panel of signers are.
It could be that every signer is registered at Blockstream and that the list is known to government agencies and marked as top secret to prevent us from knowing it.
So then one or more governments might have the power to coerce a majority of signers and they know how to do it discreetly too, but we don't know this.
Conspiracy theory? Maybe, but until we know, we don't know.
Big Barry Bitcoin
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2025-03-03 22:13:34
in reply to nevent1q…62q9
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npub1pktmatjk0l8vn3jhfuwxaasjd65kn4ye9sce3egup7k993f8fg2q5tpxa6Published at
2025-03-03 22:13:34Event JSON
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