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The Bitcoin network is steered by these developers, but as we saw with the User Acitvated Soft Fork (UASF) of 2016, the users ultimately decide what Bitcoin is.
by janandonly 3y ago
The Bitcoin network is steered by these developers, but as we saw with the User Acitvated Soft Fork (UASF) of 2016, the users ultimately decide what Bitcoin is.
The vast number of users, or at least, those who run their own node, choose to run a forked version of the client software that activated a contentious upgrade (the upgrade was Segregated Witness).
Only after the fact, this code was merged into the Core branch.
- everfree 3y ago> Only after the fact, this code was merged into the Core branch. That's incorrect. The code was merged into the Core branch first. The protocol change was initiated by the developers, not by the users.