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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Fuck: SegWit, LN, Blockstream, Core, Adam Back, and GMazwell
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traincarswreck
on 27/03/2017, 07:24:36 UTC
Core has significant influence, a big part of this is because what is merged into the code by Core is advertised on the same website that the Bitcoin whitepaper was originally hosted on, and in the forums that satoshi posted in.
It is quite different to point this out than to imply that Core has control of bitcoin and ability to unilaterally decided its fate.  What you are pointing out is effectively part of a check an balance versus dramatic in unfavorable change comparable to the US government system. It doesn't allow Core to take the whole system hostage any more than the different roles exchanges, miners, users etc have.

Each group has some ability to veto change, and pointing to only one such group as having such power is to either not understand the system or to speak disingenuously about it.

Not to mention core is a collective of different individuals contributing to an open source project.