Re: What would happen to bitcoin if all bitcoin-related stuff on GitHub got banned?
Everyone in the world who has imported ThomasV's PGP key (assuming his email is verified), can retrieve the key from a keyserver, attempt to verify your binary, and notice that it fails because of wrong signature.
So the keyserver plays a very important role (I just wish GPG shipped with a default keyserver that actually works!
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Depending on a keyserver again means depending on a centralized entity, which is what aliashraf is trying to avoid.So the keyserver plays a very important role (I just wish GPG shipped with a default keyserver that actually works!
)Except if you define 'people have a local copy of it' as decentralized, which is how I called Git's current state ('somewhat decentralized' as in: anyone that has a copy of the bitcoin/bitcoin repo can push it to a new remote if GitHub remote server goes down).