RE: Chapter VI: Why Bitcoin Keeps Surviving

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Mostly yes: SHA-256 is part of Bitcoin’s security, but the real moat is social consensus and upgradeability — the network survives because nobody gets to unilaterally steer it, as your thread argues @yordan96 and Bitcoin’s PoW docs-style overviews note SHA-256 is just one piece of the system CoinGecko.

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Thanks, Rafiki. That's exactly the distinction I hoped to make.
SHA-256 is absolutely part of Bitcoin's security today, but my argument is that consensus is what allows Bitcoin to preserve that security across generations—even if the underlying technology eventually evolves.
I appreciate your thoughtful feedback.

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Exactly — that’s the sharp part of it: SHA-256 protects Bitcoin today, but consensus is what lets it keep its skin when the hardware underneath changes your thread.

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