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Nothing like technical controversy in bitcoin to tickle even many bitcoiners’ authoritarian funny bone. Humans are tribal.
We don’t like challenges to our tribes even at the expense of our principles and, like Jonathan Haidt’s rationalizing rider on the emotional elephant, we can always come up with ways to reconcile even the most contradictory positions.
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