Bitcoin - A Different Type of Protest

Biquin was a very different approach to a protest. It had imbedded within it a larger critique of the underlying system. But differently, bick coin didn't engage with the existing financial system on its own terms. And as it did so, it invited other people into a new alternative. The only pre condition that they agreed to play by its rules - which theoretically couldn't be changed by people. Rules like bitcoins only matter because of the network effect of people around them. This is why it was wrong headed to think that forking would diminish the value of the network on the main chain. If one group could splinter, did it actually undermine this 21 million dollar hard cap

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