Opensats board has ZERO power over Bitcoin.
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Can they not find someone to develop or work on a BIP? I can’t do that, therefore they do have more power
Not hard to understand
So what? You choose what to run and what rules to agree with; people can work or fund all kinds of stupid shit, that doesn’t mean you have to run it!
If Bitcoin were susceptible to working that way then there would be a completely failed project.
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I agree, but why are you denying that having funding to pay devs to work on bitcoin is not having more power than me who cannot afford to do that
Because you choose what to run. It doesn’t matter what code *exists*, all that matters is what users use.
Greenpeace had a $5M budget to change a small part of the code. It would cost maybe $10 or $20k to do the actual code changing.
Getting people to run it, tho? Different story, and $5M, or $5B won’t get users to act against their own self-interest.
This is the Brilliance! of #Satoshi's design. The self-interest of the users control #Bitcoin.
Specifically the virtuous full nodes, and #Bitcoin loyalist. They are Bitcoin. Why would they act against themselves or tolerate others doing so..🧡😊