Excited to announce my paper Consensus Change Standards: A Legal and Technical Framework for Bitcoin Protocol Governance is now up on SSRN, Elsevier's research-sharing platform: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7115158 It proposes a readiness standard for changing Bitcoin's consensus rules - the math on when an upgrade risks splitting the chain, a 20-point scorecard anyone can apply, and the legal exposure a reckless activation creates. Free to read.