You replied before I finished the post. My post had an instruction it saying I had to go out to meet an old friend and to please check back later for the final edits.

Now I have made those final edits and entirely refuted your arguments.

Honestly, this is not substantively addressing the point. Whether you call it them 'erroneously donating' or me calling it theft, THEY will call it theft and scream bloody murder.

If this happens to more than one HODLer, there will no market for BTC at all, because there will be confidence that transactions won't result in simply losing the asset.

What part of “only the economic majority” matters do you disagree with?

Witless minion fools who follow scammers do not matter at all. Good riddance to all those bankrupted idiots.

The wealthy will be more confident that the witless fools can’t use deceptive soft forks and democracy to muck up the immutability and thus value of Bitcoin. It is precisely immutability that gives Bitcoin its unforgeable costliness that provides for the “going for the gold” valuation model.

It will cause every BTC HODLer to do due diligence before they subject their possessions to transactions, and every potential investor in BTC to do the same.

Perfect. Being responsible when dealing with money is important. It is this concept we used to (in my youth we would) refer to as being an adult. As in grow up and be responsible for our own mistakes.

Which is what they should have been doing all along.

I don't think you've addressed this actual demonstrable affect that widespread dispute over who owns assets at all, because Mt. Gox, Ethereum, and many, many non crypto disputes have shown that insecurity of an asset alleged by more than one obviously crazy or fraud bent accuser drops the value of said asset and dries up markets like nuclear fires do the morning dew.

And just why are you not appreciating/realizing that from the perspective of the economic majority, Core is the scammer. If Core wins, then Bitcoin is worthless. Which is why the Bitcoin price history chart appeared to be decelerating but actually it is accelerating because the economic majority are about to assert the “going for the gold” valuation. I told you I have expert reasoning incorporated into my topological analysis of the price chart.

From the perspective of the economic majority, there’s never been any security threat or flaws in Satoshi’s protocol (other than critical bug fixes which afair were made before Satoshi left the premises). It’s only idiots of minions who follow propaganda and do not do due diligence, who always destroy everything if they are given the right to vote.

Democracy sucks! Bitcoin is here to make enslaving democracy more efficient for the global elite. I’m not actually against that per se, but I am against the loss of the freedoms that the anonymity of cash provided. Bitcoin is the necessary evil because most people of the world reject 1 Samuel 8. I hope those of us who want to obey 1 Samuel 8 can have an anonymous altcoin orthogonal to Caesar’s system.