Bit of a blackpill that Coinbase has no economic incentive to decentralize their sequencer

Or am I incorrect in this premise? Max Resnick tweets are blackpilling me. In general why would Coinbase ever make any decision re Base that is not in the interest of shareholders?

Only argument I see is that decentralizing would hypothetically “grow the pie”. 

But if we are of the opinion that new users don’t care about decentralization, and crypto will all be abstracted away or whatever, then why would it grow the pie?

Genuine Qs

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hosting /kieran /usdc /loans 

I don’t think this is true, it’s not decentralized now and people use it plenty

Base is fundamentally useless if they choose to not decentralize. This is the entire point of Ethereum. If they didn’t it would destroy the value of the platform.

decentralization is d/acc, only needed/useful when someone comes after it/you

When Optimism fully decentralizes, since Base is part of the superchain the interoperability should lower the moat enough to make this a consumer driven decision. 

If full decentralization pushes higher usage/adoption, then they'll do it.