“You can’t just come in with a billion dollars and say, ‘I have enough for 1,000 Ethereum validators, I’m gonna run them all; I just bought my way into owning part of Ethereum consensus,’ or ‘I’m gonna buy a bunch of mining hardware, and I have more money than you, so I can get a larger share of Bitcoin protocol consensus than you can,’” explained Red Sheehan, a research analyst at Messari who writes regular reports on XRPL commissioned by Ripple Labs. “That’s just not possible with Proof of Association.”
XRP Blockchain Still Faces Centralization Caveats as Ripple Regulatory Threat Recedes
