Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers

Author: Jeff Garzik 2015-06-18 16:28:43
Published on: 2015-06-18T16:28:43+00:00

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Summary:

In a discussion among developers on an engineering list, Jeff Garzik, a Bitcoin Core developer and open source evangelist, stated that consensus changes in the Bitcoin network change its rules, which everyone in the system must follow or be ignored by it. He added that Bitcoin cannot function as a set of rules imposed by some people on others. The users' choice is binary: follow the rules or be ignored by the software.

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