When the US Government embraces Bitcoin, Bitcoin will become an asset of “strategic economic importance”.
Core Devs will be villainized. It will be generally accepted that such Devs be certified, Licensed and pass State clearance.
They’ll work out of a monolithic, windowless building on the central East Coast.
Ossification by individual node-runners will be penalized.
Then
Pressure will be put on other nations to comply, and most will.
The US Core Developer Agency will expand to include Devs from many (compliant) nations.
Node-farms as large as Mining-farms will overwhelm the remaining Pleb resistance.
Perhaps some Nation-States will be incentivized to engage this Node War. It’s unlikely they will succeed for long.
Known-Entity UTXOs will be given preferential treatment/fees.
“Unknown” transactions will be capped and fee-taxed.
Then disallowed altogether, and such Bitcoin lost.
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I’m posting this in hopes that I will be made to look like an idiot for these suspicions. Because if none of this is verifiably impossible, it’s almost 100% probable.
