You make a pull request on the core repo and if it's accepted by a centralized group of core devs, you are a core dev.
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You can now apply for funding, or be paid off by Peter Thiel.
Oh ok, they could have call it Bitcoin core foundation..🥲
Jokes apart, doesn't sound very promising and much decentralised.
You don't have to run core tho. Any software that follows the consensus rules does fine as well. There's not many that many, popular alternatives tho.
Libbitcoin I would consider the only alternative.
Yeap, I saw that, and like you said there's nit much alternatives, and that's a huge risk and point od centralisation IMHO.
..also I read that people running Knot had they node technically attacked somehow.
WE NEED MORE NODES ALTERNATIVES, ALSO WOULD BE NICE ONE WHEN YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE MEMPOOL AND UNDERSTAND SOMETHING ABOUT THE TIMECHAIN, FIRST TIME I DOWNLOADED A NODE I WAS LIKE.. SO NOW, WTF I DO WOTH THIS?
Not even that complicated. You can just fork the repo and develop within the bitcoin code repository.