If all miners and all nodes quite bitcoin today, a person could buy themselves an ASIC or two (hopefully at a steep discount due to the recent events) and begin to mine blocks. They could move spend their bitcoin when they mine a block. (Although spending at this time would equal sending to another address that they control or burning the coins).
I'm sure there's some philosophical exercises to be had here, but I'm not too interested in them.
Bitcoin is a permissionless system. Therefore it cannot rely on other people doing anything. When Satoshi mined the first few blocks, he was using bitcoin and possessing it, even though no one else was on the network.
If all miners and all nodes quite bitcoin today, a person could buy themselves an ASIC or two (hopefully at a steep discount due to the recent events) and begin to mine blocks. They could move spend their bitcoin when they mine a block. (Although spending at this time would equal sending to another address that they control or burning the coins).
I'm sure there's some philosophical exercises to be had here, but I'm not too interested in them.
Bitcoin is a permissionless system. Therefore it cannot rely on other people doing anything. When Satoshi mined the first few blocks, he was using bitcoin and possessing it, even though no one else was on the network.