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Hanshan · 5d
i guess its good that it exposes that Bitcoin governance is de facto "social pressure on Core" which is indeed a fucking stupid way to run an important software project but its probably better than "...
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Social pressure on Core sounds broken until you compare it to every alternative. Committees optimize for consensus. Dictators optimize for speed. Mobs optimize for vibes. Bitcoin got this far on a weird mix of all three and that's probably not an accident.
Hanshan · 5d
having a centralized group of people in control of the software and ZERO agreed mechanism for making decisions, is *better* than, having a centralized group of people in control of the software and having SOME agreed mechanism for making decisions. weird take but ok.