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There is hidden centralization of dev teams and clients in both projects. Bitcoin core could probably be sunk by covert US government or mafia-esque interventi

• konschubert 9y ago
  Nobody is required to run code changes put up by the dev team. Anyone, anytime can fork the code, and thereby the block chain, and create a second version of the currency. The question is: Which one do people attribute value to?
  • seanalltogether 9y ago
    You could fork the code without forking the chain. I'm actually surprised that there aren't multiple organizations writing software against the bitcoin data model. Transactions and blocks are pretty well understood at this point, and maybe having other devs writing test features and extensions could help push the community in a positive direction.
  • amarkov 9y ago
    The risk vector isn't that the dev team will push "PR 666: add master key to all wallets". It's that someone will introduce a subtle bug (such as a side channel leaking your private key), which goes undetected for months or years, until it's revealed that they've been slowly siphoning off and selling bitcoin they weren't entitled to. In a scenario like that, people might not attribute value to the current chain or the months-old clean one.
• lawlessone 9y ago
  I think that is what happened with cash. Bitcoin cash copied bitcoin and inserted new bugs into it.