As someone who is fairly new to btc, how did we end up with β€œcore centralization” of 98% ?

I mean, it was obviously a critical point of failure, so why in these 16 years has there not been more alternatives to core?

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I understand it was supposed to be a FOSS project where contributing was voluntary and changes only made with consensus. This seems to have changed now though and Core Devs only change Bitcoin for who pays them.

Thanks man, then I guess the problem is that they should never have been allowed to accept payment unless they were anonymous donations?

It is clear as day even to someone fairly new to me that core is more worried about miners fees rather than nodes, and that suddenly btc as monetary system is not the first priority anymore

Yeah it seems their interests in VC projects are their main priority, rather than guardians of the protocol.