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This is false. Bitcoin is a consensus system, and the default client for better or for worse has a stickiness that doesn't exist in normal open source software

This is false. Bitcoin is a consensus system, and the default client for better or for worse has a stickiness that doesn't exist in normal open source software because of this group consensus. So there is definitely a measure of control. Yes, it's not total or complete, but it is there.

DINKDINK 9y ago
Bitcoin Core does not have control over the software users run on their machine. If you believe differently, you don't understand how Bitcoin works. You might be confusing network effect with control.
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- buckie 9y ago
  I think they mean that a blockchain doesn't exist in a vacuum, someone has to write the code. While anyone can write a new client/protocol upgrade people won't upgrade to just anyone's new client given how much value Bitcoin represents. No one has hard-control over bitcoin, but the leading dev group has some manner of soft/non-coercive control (by momentum alone).
  - just_one_time_ 9y ago
    They have GitHub commit access. That is what OP should have meant to say. And that, for Bitcoin, is as good as ownership.
FooHentai 9y ago
That measure of control extends about as far as it did for the default bit torrent client. Negligible.