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Allowing any single person be able to push a commit to something as important at Bitcoin sounds dangerous.
by nxzero 10y ago
Allowing any single person be able to push a commit to something as important at Bitcoin sounds dangerous.
- darkFunction 10y agoThe miners aren't forced to run the code that anyone commits.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- ianpurton 10y agoThere's more to it than that. Bitcoin has many eyes watching the commits so a commit from a bad actor wouldn't get very far. Secondly the devs come to some form of consensus and Gitian build is created and signed. https://gitian.org/ https://gitian.org/. Thirdly, the miners decide whether to build the blockchain based on the newer version of the software.
- nxzero 10y agoDo you know how Bitcoin insures the code reviews are done and there's not bias in the review process?
- pas 10y agoIn theory they only do merges and everything has to go through a pull request. Probably with this required status checks feature: https://help.github.com/articles/enabling-required-status-checks/ https://help.github.com/articles/enabling-required-status-ch...