#Bitcoin maintainers have been labeled as successors of Satoshi Nakamoto.
The article says that a larger community of developers assists them in making sure that the software continues to run smoothly on modern operating systems.
It is crucial to understand that maintainers don’t control Bitcoin.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-core-maintainers-crypto-7b93804
Maintainers cannot force users to update their node.
Anyone can submit a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP), but Bitcoin Core, a BIP-compliant editor must receive an approval from at least 90% of the miners.
Nodes do not auto update. Only after the approval the nodes get an option to upgrade to a new software version.
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