Who really owns and manages Bitcoin? - page 2.

OmegaStarScream

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Quote from: raver36 on July 13, 2016, 09:44:10 AM

Quote from: OmegaStarScream on July 13, 2016, 09:36:23 AM

Bitcoin is decentralized and Open source , any one can view the code and no Satoshi Nakamoto didn't choose anyone that's why he made Bitcoin open source in the first place .
If you have enough knowledge in C/C++ you could contribute to the development as well.

I can indeed contribute, but this doesn't matter if my code doesn't get approved. My code may be good enough for the Bitcoin community but it may harm the developers' interest. Look at the block size!

Those decisions (block size) aren't taken simply like that . See here : https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable/bitcoin-roundtable-consensus-266d475a61ff
Blocksize should be 2mb next year as far as I know (if they have enough support) , I'm not sure what kind of support though. since they said "community support"

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Quote from: raver36 on July 13, 2016, 09:44:10 AM

Who put those 12 people in charge of Bitcoin?

The 12 people dont really have all too much to say.

Some people say they r clowns, or public faces, or developers.

Some of these attributes, or all or any of these attributes may or may not apply

But Bitcoin is more than any people could ever be because it is a different breed

It is open source blockchain technology from the future for now and beyond

~CfA~

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Quote from: OmegaStarScream on July 13, 2016, 09:36:23 AM

Bitcoin is decentralized and Open source , any one can view the code and no Satoshi Nakamoto didn't choose anyone that's why he made Bitcoin open source in the first place .
If you have enough knowledge in C/C++ you could contribute to the development as well.

I can indeed contribute, but this doesn't matter if my code doesn't get approved. My code may be good enough for the Bitcoin community but it may harm the developers' interest. Look at the block size!

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Quote from: raver36 on July 13, 2016, 09:20:02 AM

Hi guys,

In the past couple of days I saw really angry comments about Bitcoin, how Bitcoin is not well managed, how the organization is chaotic and how it fails...

I'd like you to clarify me and the whole community how is Bitcoin really managed.

Who the hell controls the code?

Obviously, when you go into GitHub you can clearly see the 12 people behind the Bitcoin project. I ask who are those people and how they got to have the divine power to control the source code of a project with market capitalization of $10,000,000,000? Did Satoshi Nakamato choose them?

Aren't 12 guys deficient to run such a project? Can't they maliciously exploit the system in some way?

as above comment said bitcoin is open source so anybody can contribute to it.
and also any change to the code that may be not acceptable to users (we and miners) can not be implemented just like the issue with block size which is not changing because there is too much argument and we can't reach consensus.

p.s. i also want to know how those main developers team guys came to be historically if anybody could say it.

OmegaStarScream

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Bitcoin is decentralized and Open source , any one can view the code and no Satoshi Nakamoto didn't choose anyone that's why he made Bitcoin open source in the first place .
If you have enough knowledge in C/C++ you could contribute to the development as well.

From Above

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The simple answer to ur question as to *who* really owns and manages Bitcoin is "the community that cares". Because Bitcoin is open source project any man or woman can hand in some code.

Unfortunately and fortunately and for heaven's sake Huh

the Bitcoin Github is controlled by stubborn foundation and that is as with any office/department some often crappy human organization stuff.

So TLDR: the blockchain is decentralized. So is the Bitcoin vision. Bitcoin *ought* not to be owned and managed by someone or group of people.

~CfA~

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They probably could attempt to exploit the code if they wanted to but anyone from the community can review the code and I'm pretty sure that every change that they bring is scrutinized by experts worldwide. There are plenty of people with big amounts of money invested in Bitcoin, I doubt they would rely entirely on trust and faith.

raver36

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Hi guys,

In the past couple of days I saw really angry comments about Bitcoin, how Bitcoin is not well managed, how the organization is chaotic and how it fails...

I'd like you to clarify me and the whole community how is Bitcoin really managed.

Who the hell controls the code?

Obviously, when you go into GitHub you can clearly see the 12 people behind the Bitcoin project. I ask who are those people and how they got to have the divine power to control the source code of a project with market capitalization of $10,000,000,000? Did Satoshi Nakamato choose them?

Aren't 12 guys deficient to run such a project? Can't they maliciously exploit the system in some way?

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