It's a consensus mechanism Majority vote wins.. And bitcoin is so beautiful that this has been tried and failed.
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Yes that’s the problem: consensus. So they can shut it down if they want to my understanding. it is up to Blockstream investors then, right?
No. The protocol of bitcoin is well alive and the world is running the software so they can't they would need to shut everyone and everything down.. like the electricity in the world.. at this point there is no point in trying to stop bitcoin it only makes sense to buy a few miners and start mining so you can reap the mining rewards