In order to enable users to continue to transact and trust in Bitcoin as they always have, the community of Bitcoin users must continue to enforce that changes happen only through consensus among the ever-broadening group. Conversely, in order to keep Bitcoin from stagnating unnecessarily, its community must be willing to form consensus around and make changes which help the system they wish to use without hurting others and make common-sense changes, whatever form they might take. Critically, this means that all changes which do not harm the utility of Bitcoin for any of its many use-cases, while helping others, should be made, wherever possible. I am always impressed with the social resilience of the Bitcoin community, and continue to be optimistic that it will come together with a unified vision to continue to move the Bitcoin protocol forward.
-[^1] See, for example, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) attacks against cryptocurrency pools in the past, allowing attackers to temporarily gain control of the vast majority of hashpower. Similar attacks could be envisioned against hosting providers (something which the cryptocurrency space has seen repeatedly).
+[^1]: See, for example, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) attacks against cryptocurrency pools in the past, allowing attackers to temporarily gain control of the vast majority of hashpower. Similar attacks could be envisioned against hosting providers (something which the cryptocurrency space has seen repeatedly).