Rusty is a talented and competent developer and I am grateful that he can contribute to our ecosystem. I really appreciate all the testing and data he has provided our community.


The core devs have little control. The miners can push through a hardfork without the developers. The miners have most of the keys to the kingdom and simply choose to trust the developers for the time being based upon their competence.

This really shouldn't be an us vs them debate... because we should always prepare for the worst and support all the implementations. Other implementations need a lot of help and I would personally welcome some of the competent core developers breaking off and leading other repositories.