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okay i understand about forking a little bit now thanks, but how did they even get permission to upgrade the code, how do they have access to the code edit, did satoshi trust someone to look after bitcoin? Its a good thing that btc has a 1mb blocksize which keeps it original and the 21000000 cap
I can't really remember all the history behind the github repo, but it doesn't even matter all that much... It's open source code, you're free to write your own client based on the reference client, or you can fork electrum and create a new wallet using electrum's codebase. Who gave who permission isn't really important.
What i did want to correct: blocksize has nothing to do with the 21M supply...