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You aren't making a lot of sense here since you are relying on an unelected group of people to behave in a certain way. > This never works out in the long term. The winds of politics change on a whim. That's just history for you.

With a nation state you instead rely on the intrinsic properties of the law. No ifs or buts.



The law changes dramatically every time there is a new government. The bitcoin protocol stays the same.


That is not true. The bitcoin protocol can change and did change. If you fire up the original wallet it won't sync.


Small incremental changes based on almost universal consensus, yes. Not the same as political change. The big block size guys failed to make a big politically charged change. Bitcoin has shown its resistance to political change very clearly.




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