mister_monster on Nostr: Well the nature of consensus is that you need permission from the community to make ...

Well the nature of consensus is that you need permission from the community to make the change. You don't need that to launch a network, if you build it and it works they will come, if it's significantly better than the incumbent it will win. Permissionless innovation.

I do think bitcoin will crash and burn, I told you, because of the supply cap. If you want to talk about that in depth we can. I do think Monero stands the best chance of taking the crown, but if it's community ever gets married to a protocol, loses sight of the vision (fully private peer to peer electronic cash) and refuses to improve, it will crumble to something else as well. If someone more qualified than myself can create mimblewimble with the same privacy guarantees as Monero with fcmp++ and programmability without transaction kernels, you have the holy grail of this cryptocurrency stuff, and if Monero doesn't adopt it, whatever does will be the money of spacefaring humanity.