Bitcoin's great weakness is that it is software, and software can be changed, thereby corrupting the original idea.
Consensus mitigates this, but when you only have one reference client, there is no consensus.
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Consensus is by definition a single set of rules. The number of “reference clients” doesn’t matter because every one has to implement the same rules by definition
Millions of nodes actively protecting the idea would have helped. But there aren’t enough nodes. People didn’t grasp the importance of fixing the money…