Tell that to the knotzi's and the coremunist, how about big vs small blockers.
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They're just implementations of Bitcoin, not Bitcoin itself. It's like saying gold is political because some companies are lobbying or arguing with each other
The collective of actively run bitcoin nodes and their corresponding implementations is what we call bitcoin. If one political faction in bitcoin decides to hard fork and gains majority share they are using politics to direct the network protocol. Gold lobbies don't change what is fundamentally a physical element nor its properties.
Do you think bitcoin can never change? If it does change how will that have happened? It will be the politics of node runners and there representatives the devs that create the implementations. Devs are the new politicians plebs vote with nodes
Updating and improving the code is very different than changing the rules.
Bitcoin is like chess in that regard. Anybody can create their own versions, some may like the board to be hexagonal, some may think that there needs to be twice amount of pawns in play.
This is ok, and imo everybody can play how they want, but they still cannot change the rules of the game of chess anymore.
What happens when all the rich guys say their play chess with a hexegon? And sell all their square boards for hexegon boards
Bitcoin is human consensus and human consensus drifts over time. Gold is physics and the laws of nature have stayed the same for as far as i know
You think the rules of bitcoin are immutable? Are you not aware of the history of changes to the bitcoin code?