Amazing how every single part of your comment is so wrong.
It’s actually a really good analogy,
Not an analogy, an example. Those two are different things.
because it can only run on
No, it can run on many things, including open source collaborative hardware that exists.
fully-capitalist hardware.
What the hell even is that? Fun fact: until very recently most of the computer hardware was made in communist China. I know, scary. And now that a lot of effort is being made to get that production out of there, those efforts are being sponsored by public money to an incredible degree. Billions of dollars of taxes (you know, community resources) are being poured into that because big corporations are the biggest lovers of government handouts.
Amazing how every single part of your comment is so wrong.
Not an analogy, an example. Those two are different things.
No, it can run on many things, including open source collaborative hardware that exists.
What the hell even is that? Fun fact: until very recently most of the computer hardware was made in communist China. I know, scary. And now that a lot of effort is being made to get that production out of there, those efforts are being sponsored by public money to an incredible degree. Billions of dollars of taxes (you know, community resources) are being poured into that because big corporations are the biggest lovers of government handouts.
China hasn’t been communist in a long time.
Please explain to me where this “open source collaborative” Internet hardware is on which you run your bitcoin network.
It’s behind by decades of capitalists making the industry a festering shithole.
Why does it matter which software we’re running? Running a Bitcoin node on something comes right after running Doom on it.