That just isn't how the system works. Ironically, some of the funds that Wright is trying to demand a backdoor to access are ones that were indirectly stolen f

That just isn't how the system works. Ironically, some of the funds that Wright is trying to demand a backdoor to access are ones that were indirectly stolen from the developers he's suing! If we could have just wave a magic wand and magic those coins back into our possession, we would have! Anyone at any time-- including you or wright or anyone else-- can go and make a modified version of Bitcoin with its own consensus rules that do whatever you want, print yourself a trillion coins from nothing. Wright even did this already a few years ago. But your modified version doesn't do anything to anyone else, the only people it has an effect on are the people who choose to run it. Your version would form a separate currency (just as Wright's has) and you can compete in the market for adoption. If your version is distinguished by stealing a bunch of coins, I'd bet that it doesn't get much adoption particularly since the whole premise of Bitcoin advanced in it's initial announcement was giving people power against being overridden by that kind of capricious change. https://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-source https://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-sou...