Is it state actor?
Could be just growing competition for native bitcoin.
Imagine internet had RC-like system.
Imagine the price of HIVE or whatever would give the RCs for the internet. 😀
Imagine how unhappy owners of bots/AIs with access to the internet would be in such a scenario.
Obviously, that's unlikely to ever exist, since there needs to be a network (like Hive) over the entire internet, to make RCs work.