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We have to be as accurate as possible when discussing bitcoin as any errors in representation weaken our overall perception to the general public.

Any person could start a "new bitcoin" and spin up the exact same mo etary policy, code, and scarcity . All we'd have to do is have a different first"genesis" block. What it would be missing is the network effect of the existing network. All the nodes,clients,miners,etc would not know or acknowledge its existence. This would make it very weak bit it would still have the same scarcity and other properties.