then by all means, implement it as a federated server model. I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THAT.
just don't change the source code to favor a for-profit company called Blockstream.
Open source -> everybody can download and change this code.
Everybody is free do
not use any changes in code.
They(anybody, you too) can create your own bitcoin (and there are plenty of alts, already).
as a separate topic, i see this free for all mentality as inconsistent with the consensus model both of which are supposed to be principles of open source. by your argument above, you suggest that someone should just fork code w/o bothering to gain consensus. that's weird. how is that consistent with the consensus model that supposedly our core devs engage in with Bitcoin? shouldn't we all, as a community, strive to figure out ahead of time what our path should be so as to attempt to minimize mis-steps as long as force is not applied?