> The whitepaper is not an authority, the project is allowed to evolve and that doesn't make it illegitimate. The whitepaper is a statement of intent, what the

> The whitepaper is not an authority, the project is allowed to evolve and that doesn't make it illegitimate. The whitepaper is a statement of intent, what the project is actually for. It can evolve into anything that still serves that intent, it can even shift it somewhat, but to go exactly 180 degrees contrary to the intent is like saying it's perfectly reasonable to set out building a shield, turn it into a sword and still insist that everybody else calls it a shield and any actual shields that exist after that point are impostors to the title. People are observably stupid enough to do so, but that is not a shield, and BTC is not a global peer to peer currency. It is a settlement layer for banks; the exact opposite of what it was intended to be. Nobody can spin that into sensibility. It is an attack by definition. Every other fork that has happened it was arguable, but the BTC fork was the exact opposite of what bitcoin was intended to achieve. That's clearly not an accident, no matter how many people would desperately like to believe otherwise. > Do you see the original whitepaper as something that's perfect? No room for improvement or change in the ideas presented there? Not at all. Plenty of other unsabotaged cryptocurrencies exist right now that still serve the intent of the original project but use vastly different mechanics to do so, I sincerely hope they give BTC the death it so richly deserves. That's fine and desirable as long as the plane still flies instead of tries to write a strategic shift into becoming a lawn dart as some kind of desirable evolution. > BTC has had tons of development All of it firmly dedicated to cementing the sabotage of the settlement layer for banks betrayal in place. So even worse than none at all. It isn't that it's just stale, but it's actually directly harming the original mission and sucking air out of the room and diverting investment from that goal, fooling idiots who naively don't realise they've been hijacked entirely off the original mission. > there are no "good and bad" guys. Respectfully, that's a pretty naive view of the world. In the context of the mission yes there very much are, and those that betray it are "bad" in terms of bad for the mission. They might be ethically good overall if the mission turns out to be undesirable and all along what everybody wanted was just more banks and the power they allow people who control them to wield, but that is indeed an argument that I'm not particularly interested in mostly because of the reason you mistake my position for being; global ethics and morality are complex beasts subject to endless debate with very little progress toward an objective outcome. Is x a betrayal or in service of mission y however is as easily defined as how precisely mission y was. And it was very precisely defined, and BTC is indisputably a betrayal of it and thus bad from the perspective of the mission.