I’ll Launch Bitcoin 2.0 — Compromise Over Capture

I believe the system is self-regulating. If someone seizes “power” the way you describe, people will turn away from it. That whole grand, planet-costing infrastructure will end up being used only to shuffle zeros between insiders and to sell them to each other. Those kinds of problems are solved in the 15th century, not the 21st — today we look for compromises. I could launch a Bitcoin 2.0: issue exactly as many coins as in the original and tell everyone that the original holders captured our treasure and they should use mine instead. If I say it loudly enough and I'm right, Bitcoin 1.0 could fade away. That's why negotiation and compromise are necessary.