If the government contributes hash to Bitcoin, that’s good. If they wanna fork Bitcoin and update the code it doesn’t update my node.
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thats not what we were talking about.
but since you bring it up
your node is irrelevant.
if government pressure makes miners follow a fork, nobody is adding to the chain your node is looking at. the difficulty drops to meet the miners that remain on your fork and it's worth fuck-all.
miners and large economic nodes are what matter. your node is for your own personal privacy and security.
This is actually a great reason why having miners with alternative sources for income weakens your network.
In your attack scenario bitcoin miners can only make bitcoin so they are economically incentivised to make sure they are in consensus. While monero miners have a more complicated revenue function. They might earn mining monero or fiat with alternative uses. So their commitment to mining is not as strong.
In that sense monero nodes are less powerful since they can't dictate as much power of what they accept as monero consensus from and economic perspective while bitcoin nodes wield significantly more leverage over bitcoinn miners
this is a big stretch.
Bitcoin miners aren't incentivized to be in consensus. they're incentivized to follow the fork that will make them the most money.
Monero miners are only different on n that they might fuck off and do something else if it's more profitable than mining Monero, so you could hypothetically say that you lose network security in that event. it's just a guess though and there's no compelling reason to believe that Monero would lose hash in the event of a contentious fork. lose it to what exactly? why?
and no, your umbrel doesn't have any leverage over what miners do. they're looking at where the big money goes and how to remain profitable.
People who bitcoin are the only people who matter in this senecio you speak of. They are the people who hold use the value on the chain. In a scenario where the miners what to earn & mine on the more valuable chain. Only the people who choose the correct bitcoin principles matter.
in what sense do they matter if difficulty drops to zero and the true fork dies?