I agree this is super important and often missed. People think the blockchain prevents bad things from happening, but it’s the exact opposite: The blockchain

I agree this is super important and often missed. People think the blockchain prevents bad things from happening, but it’s the exact opposite: The blockchain allows EVERYTHING. It permits all possible universes with all possible transactions. I can go back to the first block and pretend Satoshi never mined more than the first one, and I have all the bitcoins. That reality is just as valid as any other. This is the central idea of blockchain tech: you assume all realities will exist. Then you code ways for people to do business despite inevitable lack of consensus. Coincidentally this is exactly what young hippies miss about anarchism when they are trying to run consensus processes. They think anarchism is about obtaining consensus. But it’s really the opposite: anarchism is about what happens when you DONT have consensus. If you have consensus it doesn’t matter what political system you’re in: monarchy, communism, libertarianism, it’s all the same when there’s consensus. This all became clear to me after reading The Dispossessed (rip Ursula K Leguin). An anarchist syndicate is differentiated (from e.g. a co-op) by how people react when someone DISSENTS. If you dissent from the co-op you have essentially no rights. Unless you have a voting quorum the others can use the police to stop you operating against policy. In a syndicate, a dissenting member has the same rights as the entire rest of the syndicate. They have equal claim to the facilities, the resources, even the staff. They stand peer to peer with the syndicate itself. Bitcoin is the same. A fork has all the same capabilities as the long chain.