Autonomous peer to peer networks are chaotic. Ones worth trillions of dollars will be incredibly contentious at times. I don't think it can be any other way.
Like any system, bitcoin and its community will enter any possible state that it's capable of given the right conditions. One common state is divided and another is marred-with-fiasco.
Bitcoin's community will transition between possible states, divided and united included, more frequently than familiar systems because it lacks a centralized coordinator to impose such states.
Nothing in the bitcoin protocol promises it'll be pretty. The important thing is bitcoin will go on no matter how some people feel about it so long as it makes more of us freer and richer.
Autonomous peer to peer networks are chaotic. Ones worth trillions of dollars will be incredibly contentious at times. I don't think it can be any other way.
Like any system, bitcoin and its community will enter any possible state that it's capable of given the right conditions. One common state is
dividedand another ismarred-with-fiasco.Bitcoin's community will transition between possible states,
dividedandunitedincluded, more frequently than familiar systems because it lacks a centralized coordinator to impose such states.Nothing in the bitcoin protocol promises it'll be pretty. The important thing is bitcoin will go on no matter how some people feel about it so long as it makes more of us freer and richer.