It's nice to know that Hive is very resilient against centralization attacks against its witnesses. I am curious about the other way around, where Hive becomes too popular and the governments and big companies try to take it over and buy tons of Hive like in BTC and ETH. I know a hard fork like before is an option, but is that our only defense against that?
Well it depends what their intentions are with the purchases, you may also think that some of the big stakeholders here may realize its bad intentions and not sell most of their stake to combat it. We do have better procedures now to prevent something of what happened before the hive fork, even though even then it was so unprecedented and unexpected to see 3 major exchanges involved, if that hadn't happened the community would've won. It is also less likely to happen again as they would get a lot more flack the 2nd time around and can't pretend to be tricked once more.
I guess that makes sense. From how we handled the fork, bad actors will really think twice to do something similar. Thanks.