To add: the designer of the system explicitly pointed out the system was intended to be ruled by the majority: "It is a global distributed database, with addit

To add: the designer of the system explicitly pointed out the system was intended to be ruled by the majority: "It is a global distributed database, with additions to the database by consent of the majority, based on a set of rules they follow" Link: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-source?commentId=2003008%3AComment%3A9562 http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-sour...