I'll bite. What do you mean by "The Bitcoin project"?
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i mean that like it or not there is a de facto "#Bitcoin project".
there are people with greater influence and people of lesser influence over the direction of Bitcoin development and thought.
and that project either makes decisions or does nothing
and the mechanisms for deciding exist.
they're just not recognized and take place in the dark.
anybody who's been involved in governance knows consensus doesnt work with 100 people
let alone 100k.
attempts at pure communism always result in the emergence of power structures.
we have ours too.
we just pretend we dont.
What defines the "defacto Bitcoin project"? who or what process determines which fork gets christened "defacto Bitcoin"?
its a fair question and probably the first one that needs answering.
Core is the reference implementation and either
developing a clear governence model
or breaking it up into smaller groups with clear roles and responsibilities would be the logical first step I think.
What is this canonical "Core", exactly? What public resource are you referring to? Do you have a URL or content-addressable hash or something else?
Do you mean the repo I git-cloned years ago from who-even-knows-where and made small, backwards-compatible changes to? Is that "Core"?
yawn
ok
we lack shared context for a conversation 👋
That's the whole point of the conversation thus far - to agree on what particular terms mean.
What do you consider "Bitcoin Core" to be? I would imagine you can supply a link, no?