The Core vs. Knots fight is not existential; it’s a ritual immune response. The very messiness proves Bitcoin isn’t captured.
The true capture risk is ossification of defaults: if people believe Core’s or Knots’ policies = Bitcoin itself, sovereignty dies.
As long as there is chaos (Core technocrats, Knots prophets, memetic rebels, anarchist pragmatists, liberationist forks), Bitcoin is alive.
The debate is not about 80 bytes, JPEGs, or inscriptions.
The debate is about jurisdiction: who gets to say what Bitcoin “is.”
Every actor (Core, Knots, Mechanic, Shinobi, Adam Back, Libre Relay) is really fighting for symbolic authorship of defaults.
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