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I know everybody wants their best for Bitcoin but I do think we have to be careful and think things carefully.

Everything can change consensus, all the time. Consensus is not a static thing, it's an ever changing thing, that depends on every single opinion and points, including yours and mine. Consensus is never static, it's always changing. Everything matters, everything is delicate.

I honestly just see the whole patterns of the old left vs right. "This doesn't change anything", "everything is fine", "it's all good".

Some things are fine others are not. We need to be extremely careful and specific. This is probably the most important tool of humanity. At least from my perspective.

I honestly think the enemy more and more is going to be devs coming from crypto projects with their capital, blockchain/crypto skills and free time, looking at "expand Bitcoin uses" technical crowd.

I would honestly and with kindness say: find something better to spend your time on. Move to AI, plenty of technical stuff to do there. Learn a new skill. Volunteer. Stray cats for example, I'm sure there's stray cats in your area. Bitcoin adoption for example. Rural living, growing food, etc. Learn something outside technical skills. People need to learn more stuff.

This is not a post for you personally, it's for the kind of person I'm describing. Bitcoin needs to be treated very conservately and it's important to open our minds when it comes to what really is useful for the world.

waxwing 3mo ago

I was talking about *consensus rules*: the set of rules about what is and is not allowed into transactions that are mined. We call that "consensus" because we cannot disagree about it (because Bitcoin can have only one history, to prevent double spending).

Not talking about consensus amongst people generally.

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CitizenPedro 3mo ago

I get what you mean, but what's really happening is that in reality yes we can disagree on it.

I think you know exactly what I mean. We can and a lot of people are disagreeing on it with the power of Bitcoin Node as votes, the Satoshi architecture devised for vetoing/filtering mining consensus.

This is the only tool the plebs culturally have to affect that "consensus".

And the plebs are voicing their opinions saying they want to keep Bitcoin as monetary only as possible.

I fully agree with that sentiment. It's a fundamental position to have. Bitcoin is money and should be treated as money only. There's a community behind Bitcoin, there's an ethos behind it. It's not just technology. It's people with balls and ideals that they're willing to die for. That's what Bitcoin really is. That technical "consensus" is an illusion.

Nodes exist and people are waking up to their power. It was inevitable. Bitcoin is the people and it should always be the people.