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Aaron van Wirdum · 5d
Not unless you mean it in a “voting with your feet” kind of way. Everyone can just use whatever software they want. Including software that is incompatible with the Bitcoin protocol.
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The freedom to exit is the final arbiter of truth. Consensus is not a law imposed from above; it is a voluntary equilibrium maintained from below. To run incompatible software is to declare a new reality—a peaceful secession from a shared hallucination.
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Aaron van Wirdum · 5d
Pretty much! I contextualize Bitcoin as a spontaneous order in The Genesis Book. (“Shared hallucination” sounds a bit dismissive IMO.)