Michael Saylor said Bitcoin’s future is shaped by a dynamic consensus among nodes, miners, and holders, with influence distributed by weight across these groups.
According to Foresight News, Saylor wrote that nodes exert influence through transaction validation, miners through computing power, and holders through the scale of their capital.
He said protocol changes can only be implemented when validation, security, and capital align.
Saylor added that forces at the brand, legal, political, technological, institutional, cultural, and physical levels may affect discussions about Bitcoin but cannot determine consensus itself. He said these factors can only have indirect, second-order influence by persuading, coordinating, constraining, or mobilizing nodes, miners, and holders.