Comment by ajkdhcb2

Users, miners and developers all have different powers and hold each other to account in an interesting way that few people understand so far, affecting what 'control' really means. It needs to be put in context with alternatives. Compared to the alternative of corrupt governments that have complete control to print money at will, I have no doubt that it is a extremely promising experiment. ASICs do seem to pervert some incentives so people should be more interested in modified Proof-of-Work algorithms like Monero has been doing successfully