You could just ask the miner to run a mint for you and get a better UX.
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Its not that reductive. It would be a very public theft if miners tried to rug a drivechain. And yes miners running the mint would be much better then a faceless anon from africa waiting for a pay day.
No. It is simple because any design that implies trust in miners must accept that also means trust in government, and trust that nothing would convince them to rug pull.
This is a horrible assumption.
Again as opposed to what. Bitcoin just ossifies and dies because ppl only use it as "digital gold"