Running a geographically distributed organization between five countries is hard. That’s likely the big one. And I’ll say that, having both founded Ethereum and co-founded Bitcoin Magazine, which works similarly, even if we have awesome cryptocurrencies and communication protocols, there’s still quite a bit of sociology that needs to catch up.
Earth could this philosophy of radical and permanent decentralization ever be reconciled with the absolute need for a single, permanent, universally trusted ledger?