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@JustusRanvier @kristovatlas We can only hope that they will bankrupt themselves while trying to do so.
Claiming that new code must undergo a single group’s review process before being offered to the world: not permissionless innovation.
Permissionless innovation: any developer can write code and offer it to the participants in the Bitcoin ecosystem, who adopt or ignore it.
“The governance of Bitcoin is whatever code that people are willing to run.” - @gavinandresen
@cypherdoc2 That logic could be extended to any of the consensus code. In the end, no one controls it because everyone controls it.
Governance need not necessitate government.
Step back and marvel at the resources being expended to achieve consensus about changing this single line of code: https://t.co/sWGqFsDIaq