I could see big players like Black Rock giving nice sponsorships to core devs and/or hiring their own to be core contributors as a way to exert influence.
Oh, you asked about miners. Well the same big players could become miners themselves and then support regulatory capture to get favorable treatment by government. Then a cartel forms, transactions start getting censored, joining forces to gain more influence. Basically imagine the block size war again but with much more power and capital and political connections because instead of Jihan Wu we are up against Black Rock.
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