It works as long as it remains difficult and, more importantly, taboo to point to any particular person or cartel who's pushing for the constant change in the

It works as long as it remains difficult and, more importantly, taboo to point to any particular person or cartel who's pushing for the constant change in the narrative of what "works" means. That's the real beauty of bitcoin: exploiting the early-ish internet's cultural norm of placing respect for individual privacy and anonymity above all else, in order to defer responsibility for any controversy its core backers want to shirk to an anonymous, impersonal, but somehow always correct "protocol."