You completely abandoned your original argument. You realized the cryptography works, so now you're trying to argue about human politics and hard forks. Guess what? If 100% of Bitcoin miners and developers decide to change Bitcoin's rules tomorrow, and a year passes, a fresh Bitcoin node downloading the latest software client will 'just ride along' and accept that history too. That isn't a Kaspa flaw; that is how software and social consensus work on every decentralized network in existence. And your laptop bandwidth comment proves you still don't understand pruning. A fresh Kaspa node does not download or process every historical transaction worldwide. It downloads a light header proof and the current balance sheet. It takes minutes, not days, and it doesn't hog a thing. You can keep playing philosopher and moving the goalposts, but the engineering speaks for itself. Kaspa verifies the present state using the unforgeable energy of the past. You don't need to be a historical archivist to be sovereign.