“Of course” we have 2 ledgers and no consensus between them? So do we all agree that Bitcoin does not solve decentralized consensus and I missed the memo?
If Alice only changed 1 little rule and made it conflicting with the ruleset used by the rest of the network, it’s easy to imagine consensus failure and being able to find 1 Bob that gets tricked into receiving a double-spent Bitcoin. In fact, such a system failure has happened already in 2013, when for 24 hours no one knew which ledger was the real bitcoin: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-network-shaken-...