I agree that politics operate in bitcoin. I disagree that politics will decide which network branch remains in use, at least not conventional politics of influe

I agree that politics operate in bitcoin. I disagree that politics will decide which network branch remains in use, at least not conventional politics of influencing people through polemic, logrolling, or subsidy. Politics in the sense of any attempt at influencing people aside from the literal design of your favored protocol implementation. You may be correct to say that incentive structures designed in software protocol is in fact politics itself, a new and effective form of politics. In that case I would agree with you. Perhaps my original comment would be more interesting if I had thought of bitcoin protocol proposals as a form of politics!