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There is a good number of early bitcoin enthusiasts who have found great solace in the supposed mathematical and technical "purity" that bitcoin offers. They perceive undesired changes to be almost sacrilege, destroying this one island of purity in a dark world.

They will often assert strongly that certain claims are undeniably true from a technical perspective, without stating the large number of assumptions inherent to the conceptual framework they use to make such claims.

Many would argue that their assumptions are not all obviously reasonable, yet rarely does the discussion even manage to broach these underlying aspects.