When a wannabe government (political party) promises to be pro-Bitcoin (before the elections), then it becomes a government (after the elections) and it shows an anti-Bitcoin stance, that's not a democracy, that's a dictatorship pretending to be something else!
So when a politician, elected by a majority and within the rules, lies to you in a way that contradicts your policy goals, then that is "dictatorship" in your mind. Interesting.
You seem to be
extremely anti-American in your comments, which I guess would be a good advertisement for any American who is in favor of their country continuing to exist to... do the opposite of what you are asking to be done
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So, for the record, the government cannot change Bitcoin rules. The best it can do is create an altcoin. I'd call that entirely different.
The US government can create an "altcoin" that is:
1. Called "Bitcoin" and trademarked as such, such that if you have anything else called "Bitcoin" then you would be prosecuted;
2. Compatible with the current Bitcoin's existing blocks, such that all current holders of Bitcoin would continue to have their holdings;
3. Legal in the US and it's allies to hold and trade, as opposed to anything else, which it would deem illegal;
And then they could deem the "old" Bitcoin as:
1. In violation of their trademark, such that anybody who used the term "Bitcoin" to describe it in any variant would be prosecuted;
2. Illegal to hold or trade in the US, meaning all major US brokers, apps and wallets would instantly drop this fork for fear of prosecution.
So yes,
in your own mind what the US would have created would be "not Bitcoin", but
in all practicality the US government would have replaced Bitcoin as we know it with their own controlled software system.
I don't know how else this can be described. The idea that any significant number of people would risk prosecution and all of their Bitcoin holdings so they could remain "pure" is just... nuts to me. Maybe you think people would do this, and bitcoin-orig would rise above bitcoin-us somehow in the market (what market?), but I simply cannot imagine any scenario where that could happen.
For the same reason the rest of the world follows all kinds of No offense, but you come across as overly confident and arrogant about Bitcoin, despite lacking significant technical knowledge.
If you are going to start with the personal attacks then this conversation is over. I have over 30 years of system-level programming and computer architecture experience, and I know Bitcoin's architecture quite well, as well as having years of experience in transactional systems, information security, and high-value financial systems. I could easily write the Bitcoin software myself, for instance, and I have delivered systems of this complexity and scale before in my career many times.
But trying to "win" your argument with a personal attack might work for you--and might even work for a few in the audience, but it's... a waste of my time
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