According to @AltcoinDaily, Satoshi Nakamoto said the Bitcoin core design was set in stone after version 0.1, highlighting long-term protocol stability. Source: https://twitter.com/AltcoinDaily/status/2012620451663458502 For traders, this aligns with Bitcoin’s practice of making consensus changes cautiously via backward-compatible soft forks, limiting disruptive hard-fork risk. Source: https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/soft-fork/ Predictable issuance mechanics remain intact, including a hard cap of 21 million BTC and block subsidy halvings roughly every 210,000 blocks (about four years). Source: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply; https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Halving