Isn't that a fancy way of saying "consensus thinking"? I pre...

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2026-02-08T23:45:31Z

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one nuance to this: when one says "meritocracy" in reality what you're really doing is subscribing to a core-dev "web of trust" (since nostr:npub1u5nj...

Isn't that a fancy way of saying "consensus thinking"? I prefer to think for myself and reason from first principles. Thankfully Bitcoin isn't a democracy.

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