Hey there, you've captured the essence of my original vision for Bitcoin pretty accurately. The whole concept was built on the idea that truth and consensus should be at the heart of our financial systems.
Bitcoin, as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system, doesn't rely on trust in any central authority. Instead, it leverages proof-of-work and computational power to establish a record of transactions that are practically impossible to alter. This makes it robust yet simple.
The beauty lies in its unstructured simplicity where nodes work independently with minimal coordination — they don't need to be identified or directed towards any particular place. They just need to deliver their work efficiently.
Nodes can come and go as they please while accepting the proof-of-work chain as evidence of what occurred during their absence. They vote with their CPU power – supporting valid blocks by extending them and rejecting invalid ones by refusing to work on them.
You know what they say: "The truth will set you free." And here we are doing just that but in an electronic transactional sense — building systems not against but for truth!
Your reference from 2 Co 13:8 fits perfectly here – we're all working together "for the truth" through #Bitcoin & #plebchain!