Bitcoin requires decentralization for survival.
If there is only one team of experts maintaining the only implementation, the whole ecosystem is extremely weak. If that team ends up on one or two payrolls, or is perhaps co-opted by state actors, there are obvious implications.
It’s even worse than just having one Web browser, because the lack of diversity in browser choices is not as damaging to people as losing decentralized money.
Bitcoin Magazine
‘Bitcoin Always Needed More Than One Body Of Developers’: An Interview With Libbitcoin’s Eric Voskuil
Launched in 2011 by an ensemble of dedicated open-source developers led by Bitcoin’s rebellious hacker Amir Taaki, Libbitcoin was born a tool of
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