Bitcoin is defined by the software economic nodes choose to run built by a specific group of individuals. "reasoning yourself from first principles" is not enough. even if you reason yourself and choose a fork that noones uses its not bitcoin.

Reasoning from first principles is always a good thing. But we have to recognize our cognitive limitations as individuals. I’d love to review every line of open source code that I’ll ever use but that’s never going to happen. The vast vast majority of what I know about the world is stuff that ...

^^ this.