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I don't think Satoshi's intent has anything to do with it at this point.
It may make sense to consider it as advice, because, I mean, it's Satoshi: but bitcoin has become a project that is its own thing at this point -- regardless of Satoshi's intent.
If this question is what is the Constitution, the answer is what was Satoshi's intent.
How do you determine Satoshi's intent?
The Genesis Block, as I mentioned, is a heavy hint.
Sure, but there's a lot of room for interpretation there.
I think one reason the US ended up with a constitution rather than some writings of the founding fathers is that intent isn't really a workable basis when you need to reach consensus.
It isn't so difficult to interpret--and neither is the Constitution.
What you'd have to look at was the intent of Satoshi. It's clear that he/them were pissed off about the whole Goldman Sachs debacle, and wanted to have a way to have a bank that wasn't tied to the forces of the world economy. That bank was bitcoin, which it turns out was also the medium of exchange in a decentralized way. So, everything else, which is much at this point, doesn't fit that vision and this is why crypto is creeping toward something against the core mission it outlined in the form of CBDC's.