> Such a change would be a hard fork and, as you know, we don't do that in Bitcoin. True, it'd be a hard fork. However, I don't believe hard forks are impossib

> Such a change would be a hard fork and, as you know, we don't do that in Bitcoin. True, it'd be a hard fork. However, I don't believe hard forks are impossible if managed properly. The taproot upgrade (not a hard fork, I know) was rather uncontroversial and accepted rather easily. I suspect a hard fork allowing for - say - bitcoin amounts encoded in 64 bits would not necessarily generate the kind of upheaval the blocksize wars did. And, hopefully, even for controversial upgrades, the lessons of said wars will have been learnt and the process of upgrading Bitcoin can be done in a slightly more reasonable / orderly fashion.