Trump says that we're going to embrace crypto
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Bitcoin has been vetted already thousands of programmers. It’s open source, so they can do that.
A VPN company has many fewer programmers and isn’t open source. Only a few look at the code and can make any changes without anyone knowing because their tech isn’t secured by blockchains that would prevent it.
Gold and silver haven’t taken off because of Bitcoin getting in the way? Sounds like you put your faith in something weak.
God has as much to do with decentralized crypto as He does with metals.
Most VPN companies are re-using open source VPN code and charging for access to their servers. The VPN software in question has been used in many pieces of software including various linux flavours for 20 years.
Gold and silver haven't taken off primarily because of the EFT scam in which gold and silver EFTs are traded as if they're interchangeable with gold and silver, even though the number of such 1 oz EFTs outnumbers extant ounces of gold and silver by 100x-300x. It has acted as an apparent inflation of the supply of these metals. However, following 2008 that wasn't enough to keep people off of gold and silver so they printed trillions and awarded them to the big banks to, in part, suppress the price of the metals further and, while prices were down, they released crypto, which has since been diverting demand for gold and silver.
If they didn't want people buying crypto, they'd print money to drive its price down as they've been doing with gold and silver. If people think there are no gains to be had, they won't invest.
God has nothing to do with crypto, it's a man made software running on man made machines. "In God we trust" refers to the fact that there's no one and no thing on earth we can trust to limit the quantity of money. Only God, who determined how much precious metal there is, can be trusted with such a task.
Regardless, a VPN company is a centralized entity. They can change the code — and the code is susceptible to hackers (not possible on a blockchain).
It is if the adversary controls an appreciable portion of all issued currency and/or also controls enough computers (via the OS, or the hardware, or both). They could root every computer on earth and have it accept their changes to the blockchain.