Interesting to learn, that **Bitcoin Core** is maintained by employees.
The marketing bitcoin core was "decentralized" because it has so many contributors is a farce.
There is no formal process, but instead a handful of existing maintainers pull in/up new contributors instead of the other way around.
And of course, everyone is incentivized to stay on the payroll - ultimately who pays decides.
https://www.youtube.com/live/3BFgoQawG7Q?t=8188s
Thanks nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7cnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqzq7el0qph2p6x7325zw3zr7qfvhhvk600xz8jatga4zwv9jy396tgl0dzev for shedding light on this.
In fact - bitcoin developers can always ask for donations, but the point is - if you have a lot of bitcoin as a developer, you have stake in the game and helping to make bitcoin successful pays you.
True decentralization means - if we already have employees implementing, then at least lets have them paid by a diverse set of companies and not all on the same group that keeps everyone on payroll. Thats really bad.
I see knots vs. core as a huge improvement to decentralization and we should have even more implementations.