Bitcoin (BTC)—the cornerstone of the crypto-asset market—had maintained an uncanny silence. There had been no changes to consensus rules since the last protocol update, Taproot, in November 2021, marking what could be described as the longest period of "quietude" in Bitcoin's history. Yet, beneath this veneer of calm, intense friction regarding a new paradigm was beginning to surface as open conflict within the depths of the protocol.
For Bitcoin, a system that has long held "immutability" as a supreme value, the update proposals currently under debate are challenging the boundaries between technology and the social contract.
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