This line of thinking was already refuted. See my replies to JoelKatz.
If by refuted you mean: waved hands at, blustered and ignored, sure.
If Amazon control the wallet, there would be no reason for them to have on-chain transactions in the first place, they would do the entire accounting in-house. Just like exchanges do already.
Are you so thick brained that you can't read what I wrote to JoelKatz upthread.
Let me write it again for you! You force me to hand-feed every lazy idiot who can't read what was already written upthread.
Do you think I like all these people wasting my time because you are too lazy to read? And you expect me to be nice to you when you intentionally waste my time and try to deceive in order to induce me to repeat what was already written upthread! Fuck man!
The reason is because the cartel needs to gradually consume the hashrate of the network, so it can delay the transactions of non-cartel customers who are on the blockchain. To force them to join the cartel or lose customers to the cartel.
Duh!
Shut up mofo.
P.S. I seriously regret not making this a self-moderated thread. Major mistake on my part.