Hi, thanks for your comments. Businesses often engage in community outreach and also community building for various PR aligned reasons.

Oh yeah, that's true. But the main "PR aligned reason" usually is because their local or external governments in some way or another force them to cover their part of "social responsibility" with the community.

The exchange industry is very competitive and any organisation claiming to value decentralisation needs to reflect that claimed ideal over the long term.

That's true also. There is too much competition in this industry, simply because it is too easy to obtain exaggerated and large monetary and financial profits from this activity without producing absolutely anything tangible and of value and living only from speculation and people's expectations. I hate to say this, but again, just as the traditional banks.

I appreciate that few may be interested in much outside of their balance sheets, but that is unfortunate and with enough grass roots momentum they may eventually find their lack of connection to their audience is their undoing!

Yeah, let's continue to be naive and optimistic. And let's hope that one day some rebel with many contacts, relationships and opulence will emerge in this industry and who is truly willing to overturn this current paradigm of the financial industry.