I don't think that the group of people who would need to do the forking are sufficiently
BITCOIN CORE VS KNOTS, SPAM VS FILTERS, QUANTUM THREATS, & SOCIAL ENGINEERING | Jameson Lopp
"If we ever get to the point where nobody's arguing about Bitcoin, I would be afraid that that's because nobody cares anymore and Bitcoin is actually dead or dying."
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1 I don't think that the group of people who would need to do the forking are sufficiently 2 motivated and economically relevant enough to pull that off.
5 And you can get into some really big disconnects when you have one group of people, usually 6 like the technical autistic people who are like, this is what Bitcoin is.
And then you have another set of people who are more like, well, this is what 8 Bitcoin is in my head.
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motivated and economically relevant enough to pull that off.
That's the short version.
I believe we'll always be persistently debating what Bitcoin is.
And you can get into some really big disconnects when you have one group of people, usually
like the technical autistic people who are like, this is what Bitcoin is. Like, this is what the
protocol allows. And then you have another set of people who are more like, well, this is what
Bitcoin is in my head. When they say this is Bitcoin, what they mean is this is what I want
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"If we ever get to the point where nobody's arguing about Bitcoin, I would be afraid that that's because nobody cares anymore and Bitcoin is actually dead or dying."
