by your logic voting and a parliament is decentralized.
you are still talking about one software, and one collective making changes on it.
something accepted or not without being tested by the market.
its not like100 devs all have their own alternative versions and experimenting with things in the market of node software in parallel.
its all one collective entity.
makes no sense.
I don't understand
amazon is not centralized because they have many workers?
is a government decentralized because it has parliament or people voting in it?
no that would be a crazy statement.
what is decentralized is multiple nations, experimenting with different laws in parallel.
or multiple companies competing in the free market in parallel.
or multiple bitcoin node implementations competing in the free market of node software, experimenting with different things, and live or die.
so yes some other node implementations, especially one that gives its bitcoin user more options, is decentralization.
one software implemented by one repo, can make changes to the protocol based on votes of few without competing in the market with other options is against everything bitcoin and decentralization.
monopoly over bitcoin software by a single collective is not decentralization.
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FORKING ≠ DECENTRALIZATION.
Bitcoin Core has hundreds of contributors, public review, and global adoption.
Knots is maintained by one person with custom filters, calling that “more decentralized” just because it’s different is misleading.
Decentralization means many users freely choosing between well-reviewed, consensus-respecting software -not one person pushing personal changes without broad support.
Core is dominant because it’s trusted, not because it’s forced.
That’s decentralization in action.
