Most people think Bitcoin governance is decentralized. It’s not.
Here's the uncomfortable truth:
You don’t need 51% of miners to change Bitcoin.
You just need 5 Core maintainers and a network of ...
> Core removed the 80-byte limit with almost no discussion.
> Thousands of nodes implemented it automatically.
This is complete nonsense. There has not been any removal or change of any limit. There has been ongoing discussion about potentially removing a limit for weeks now. There has not been any new release of Bitcoin Core that implements any change of policy in months. No nodes are implementing anything automatically.
> Thousands of nodes implemented it automatically.
This is complete nonsense. There has not been any removal or change of any limit. There has been ongoing discussion about potentially removing a limit for weeks now. There has not been any new release of Bitcoin Core that implements any change of policy in months. No nodes are implementing anything automatically.
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