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It is not an appeal to authority. It is simply a matter of following the objective of Bitcoin as outline in the whitepaper. If you don't like it then bugger off elsewhere or start your own shitcoin. Bitcoin wasn't a theory in 2010, it was a functioning software, the theory was pre 2009.
Why should I bugger off?
When any concept is put into action, there tends to be lots of ways to interpret and a history that develops.
You likely lose a lot of credibility when you attempt to insist on only one interpretation of text and maybe even to cite that text without attributing proper context, and maybe even failing to recognize that the conclusion in time 1 did not consider events in time 2, time 3 and time 4, so the conclusion may have even changed, if it had accounted for subsequent events, no?
you just want to insist on a black and white reading and assert that Satoshi said? Kind of seems like an appeal to authority to me.