Technically Bitcoin development stops if all the dev's stop or leave. If they all decided
to do nothing from today Bitcoin would continue in its present state, there would be
no advancements but I cannot believe that nobody would replace them.
It would be really something if ALL developers left/stopped or were forced
to stop, like a long shot because Bitcoin is open source with hundreds of contributors.
https://bitcoin.org/en/development#code-reviewBitcoin Core contributors (Ordered by number of commits)
Wladimir J. van der Laan(7124)
MarcoFalke(4479)
Pieter Wuille(1972)
fanquake(1613)
gavinandresen(1101)
hebasto(854)
jonasschnelli(772)
jnewbery(748)
practicalswift(714)
achow101(625)
Cory Fields(604)
TheBlueMatt(502)
jonatack(482)
Luke-Jr(454)
ryanofsky(429)
dongcarl(369)
promag(329)
sdaftuar(290)
meshcollider(280)
non-github-bitcoin(271)
Gregory Maxwell(267)
theStack(214)
morcos(209)
jtimon(173)
Sjors(163)
kallewoof(163)
ajtowns(161)
instagibbs(150)
vasild(139)
amitiuttarwar(137)
Empact(134)
jamesob(131)
glozow(127)
paveljanik(109)
ken2812221(105)
Peter Todd(102)
jimpo(88)
pstratem(84)
fjahr(83)
cozz(70)
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