moneyball on Nostr: Note: I'm re-exploring such dynamics for the first time in 7 years. Here's the ...
Note: I'm re-exploring such dynamics for the first time in 7 years.
Here's the distinction I'm thinking: Investors hold power because they can put their money where their mouth is. They can sell bitcoin if they don't like the direction. They can express intentions for a fork through futures like in 2017 with Bitfinex s2x futures. But investors aren't economic nodes because they aren't receiving bitcoin on a daily basis.
Economic nodes hold power because they're constantly receiving bitcoin and validating the rules. If economic nodes reject blocks mined by miners that is significant. Or, if they don't enforce new soft forked rules for transactions that miners are mining, that creates a precarious situation for anyone locking up funds in such scripts.
Thoughts?
Here's the distinction I'm thinking: Investors hold power because they can put their money where their mouth is. They can sell bitcoin if they don't like the direction. They can express intentions for a fork through futures like in 2017 with Bitfinex s2x futures. But investors aren't economic nodes because they aren't receiving bitcoin on a daily basis.
Economic nodes hold power because they're constantly receiving bitcoin and validating the rules. If economic nodes reject blocks mined by miners that is significant. Or, if they don't enforce new soft forked rules for transactions that miners are mining, that creates a precarious situation for anyone locking up funds in such scripts.
Thoughts?