A look at Bitcoin's five maintainers scattered globally, who steward the open-source Bitcoin Core, after four turnovers in 18 months cited burnout or legal risk
Developers with power to change the cryptocurrency's software hold an unorthodox role, are elusive—and have been known to head off disaster for the coin
Wall Street Journal Paul Kiernan
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Discussion
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@pkwsj
Paul Kiernan
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Bitcoin is seen as the “decentralized” gold standard of crypto. But behind the scenes, a small community of developers work tirelessly on software that 99% of the Bitcoin network uses. This is the story of their six trusted stewards, known as maintainers. https://www.wsj.com/...
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@bitcoinerrorlog
John Carvalho
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This article is very even-handed and accurate, but some Bitcoiners seems to feel an obligation to reacting as a living meme at this point. We can do better than being knee-jerk haters of all scrutiny. Mainstream media actually did pretty good reporting here. Deal with it! https:/…
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@smtuffy
Sean Tuffy
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So if the six Bitcoin coders quit, that would be the end of this going show? Like, can we do a whip around to buy them off? https://twitter.com/...
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@goldseek
@goldseek
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“There have been numerous covert fixes” Bitcoin's Future Depends on Six Mysterious Coders A handful of developers w/ power to change the cryptocurrency's software hold an unorthodox role, are elusive—and have been known to head off disaster for the coin https://www.wsj.com/...
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@resistancemoney
Andrew M. Bailey
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WSJ: “A handful of developers with power to change the cryptocurrency's software...” Wrong. Only you have the power to change the software running on your own node. And that's just the subtitle. It gets worse from there! https://twitter.com/...
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@johnpaczkowski
John Paczkowski
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“At least once, the maintainers secretly patched a bug that bitcoin proponents say could have destroyed the cryptocurrency's value.” 😬 https://twitter.com/...
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@mparekh
Michael
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A Close-up of the six nomadic #Bitcoin #Core #Maintainers: “Six mysterious coders have a critical role in bitcoin but are largely unknown to the millions who own the cryptocurrency.” #Crypto #Tech https://www.wsj.com/...
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@annmlipton
@annmlipton
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Wait really? Should we be revisiting whether Bitcoin is a security? https://www.wsj.com/...
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@jonoringer
Jon Oringer
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How can that GitHub repo not be regulated? Large bitcoin owners - are you comfortable with this? https://www.wsj.com/...