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Ferret7446 12 hours ago

For better or worse, Bitcoin is a true democracy. If all/most users decide to switch to a new quantum safe algorithm, then it is so.

ProllyInfamous 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

See (for example) the August 2017 "hard fork" — when "bitcoin" split into bitcoin and bitcoin_cash (by node concensus for new maximum blocksize).

kibwen 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Protip for readers: when people on HN say "democracy", what they mean is "plutocracy".