&gt; &gt; 1. If consensus parameters cannot be voted on then Bitcoin is a failure<p>&gt; Eagerly awaiting a substantive response to this by maaku.<p>I am very much not maaku, but first it&#x27;s obvious that Proof-of-Work has not been used to decide consensus protocol parameters (it&#x27;s used for transaction ordering and establishing the consensus history). Second, Bitcoin success or failure is entirely unrelated to how the protocol wasn&#x27;t designed to vote on consensus protocol parameters.