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by Ferret7446 73 days ago
For better or worse, Bitcoin is a true democracy. If all/most users decide to switch to a new quantum safe algorithm, then it is so.
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kibwen 73 days ago
Protip for readers: when people on HN say "democracy", what they mean is "plutocracy".
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ProllyInfamous 73 days ago
See (for example) the August 2017 "hard fork" — when "bitcoin" split into bitcoin and bitcoin_cash (by node concensus for new maximum blocksize).
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