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They hard fork whenever they want. With each one they can set any policy that they want. This is exactly like a centralized government. Examples:
These are activities that centralized entities do, changing the incentives this way and that to centrally design the behavior they want.
is the reason they can hard fork because one entity has over 51% of the mining power or are there other factors ?
They hard fork because it's centrally controlled not the other way around.
Vitalik and friends decide for everyone what they want for the network and they get it.
thanks, i guess my question was what is it about ethereum that makes it so that vitalik can make these decisions vs bitcoin where there is no centralized planning.
Their history? They started with an ICO which is very much a centralized entity. That gives them some authority over the entire project since they can claim they're serving all the people that gave them money at the beginning (but not as a security, apparently).