This is actually a great point

2 things with that 1) dark pools shield observation and dark pools constitute a lot of mining/ merchant activity

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2) We would have to have some way of deciphering what constitutes “enough” economic weight to constitute influence over network rules

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Ability to sustain a hard fork? Which would be some kind of taxation hard fork by the state I guess?

Imma check voskuil

This is prob the best explanation

economic-security = receipts * distribution(receipts) * [merchants / humanity]

confirmation-security = hash-power * distribution(hash-power) * [miners / humanity]

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Qualitative-Security-Model

Economic activity would grind to a halt when there's sustained censorship