Quote from: DooMAD on Today at 09:18:49 PM

Quote from: KalOlak on Today at 08:12:55 PM

So, why is the number 21 million significant? Is it some kind of religious belief?

Principles can exist without religion, y'know. Arguably, they flourish without it. Balls to religion. I'd rather see people being capable of judging right from wrong without needing to be bribed with the promise of heaven or threatened with the prospect of hell. If someone requires such an incentive to be a good person, they're probably just a bad person masquerading as a good one. Besides which, obsessions with superstition and fables is unproductive when discussing technology. Maybe leave that crap out of it?

If you use Bitcoin, you accept the fundamentals of its design. In the same way an upstanding person wouldn't renege on a deal, they equally wouldn't wish to breach the principles that Bitcoin was founded upon. Changing it would effectively be pulling the rug out from under everyone who already accepted it as it is. It's not fair to move the goalposts like that.

Your words reflect a wealth of life experience, and I completely agree with you. However, what if principles matter not only those embedded in the Bitcoin code but also the principles guiding Bitcoin investment? What if the optimal bet of 2.625 is genuinely based on sound reasoning and has no connection to religion?

Let's take, for example, the relationships between men and women. If in your religion and your state, it is accepted that a man can have only one wife, then whether you are Jeff Bezos or a McDonald's worker, you can't violate this rule. You can't claim that having two wives is better than one, or having three wives is better than two. These are the principles on which your society is based. Because having one wife when the distribution of men and women is 50/50 is considered an optimal strategy in this context.