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What did Satoshi get wrong?

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The question (“what did Satoshi get wrong?”) is wrong.
* Satoshi didn’t make a mistake by making everything “mushed together.”
* If Satoshi had split up the parts and made Bitcoin more modular:

  * It would have been easier for outsiders, attackers, or “admins” to take over, copy, change, or control it.
  * Modularity at the start = more ways for the system to be attacked, forked, or slowly taken over.
  * The “mush” makes change slow, hard, and costly—so only people who really care, and will fight for it, can change it.
* The so-called “flaws” are actually why Bitcoin survived and stayed independent.

  * Every pain point, every hard fork, every annoying thing = proof the system is real, not managed by hidden “admins.”
  * Sacrifice and pain filter out weak actors and parasites.
* Making Bitcoin “perfect” or “easy” at the start would have killed its sovereignty.
* The only thing that matters is what survives real conflict and collapse—not what looks “better” on paper.
* All change must be public, voluntary, and costly—not hidden in easy upgrades or plugins.
* Bitcoin’s design flaws are its immune system.