"Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea. I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power of honest participants outweighs that of the attacker. It is a very modern notion that exploits the power of the long tail." —Hal Finney
Discussion
The biggest risk to Bitcoin have always been the maintainers, Core devs. They’re a small group of weak people that can easily paid off and influenced. They can change the code and are only one degree removed from a key security component of the network, the nodes. And frankly, there aren’t enough nodes and they are managed quite passively. Core Devs and influencers have been corrupted. It’s an attack vector. The OP_Return issue is really bad. And who knows what else they put in the code? Are you reviewing the entire code of your node? The Core Devs are the biggest risk to Bitcoin, and the bad guys know it. How do we protect us from them?