Ownership in any meaningful sense would involve having the ability to reverse SHA256 and/or majority control of the mining pool...
That vulnerability is known, but unproven that it could or does exist or have the potential to exist.
So even if it were created by Intel, it is secure by design, provided the majority of the mining pool is acting in good faith and the hash remains too hard to brute force reverse and/or cannot be backdoored (nobody has shown that ability), they could not exercise "ownership". In fact any demonstration of control/ownership would instantly destroy the entire thing, as its trust-ability would evaporate.
Ownership in any meaningful sense would involve having the ability to reverse SHA256 and/or majority control of the mining pool... That vulnerability is known, but unproven that it could or does exist or have the potential to exist. So even if it were created by Intel, it is secure by design, provided the majority of the mining pool is acting in good faith and the hash remains too hard to brute force reverse and/or cannot be backdoored (nobody has shown that ability), they could not exercise "ownership". In fact any demonstration of control/ownership would instantly destroy the entire thing, as its trust-ability would evaporate.
Oh right, I forgot that Quantum Computers running on Unix, or Linux or even Unicode, cannot unravel Code above 8 bits....
And I also forgot that the U.S. Govt is soo POOR that they can scarcely afford to buy old Computers running on Windows 9x....
/sarc