You have pretty selective memory: https://coincodex.com/article/3669/the-184-billion-btc-bug-that-caused-a-transaction-revert/ https://coincodex.com/article/36

You have pretty selective memory: https://coincodex.com/article/3669/the-184-billion-btc-bug-that-caused-a-transaction-revert/ https://coincodex.com/article/3669/the-184-billion-btc-bug-t... Fundamentally blockchains are about consensus, they have a mechanism to obtain consensus programatically but this programatic consensus can always be overriden if the participants decided to run a different version of the software. To be noted that the guys "in power" are the miners, the developers can only put forward a new version of the rules but the miners decide what they want to run.