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Bezos could shut down Ethereum

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“There’s monitoring evidence that most nodes in Ethereum are run on Amazon, and it’s Jeff [Bezos’] prerogative at this point… if he wants to shut down [the] Ethereum network, he can do that… most people in DeFi don’t care [that] the infrastructure is centralized, but they all want to be decentralized… the cognitive dissonance that we have is so bad.” — 00:26:24

Context: Asked about DeFi running on centralized infrastructure; he adds “DeFi is not fully decentralized unless the entire stack is on a decentralized network” (00:27:50), noting centralized DNS and frontends as regulatory chokepoints.

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