Who Really Controls Bitcoin? | Bitcoin Mechanic

What Bitcoin Did · May 26, 2026 · 1h 32m · transcript

“Whoever blinks first wins.”

Mechanic joins me to discuss the controversial BIP110 proposal, the fight over spam and inscriptions, and whether Bitcoin users can force a consensus change without support from the major mining pools.

We get into miner power, node enforcement, UASF game theory, soft forks, and whether Bitcoin is drifting away from its original purpose as money. Mechanic argues that Bitcoin’s strength comes from ordinary users enforcing the rules, not corporations, exchanges, or miners.

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