A lot of this is true. Imo any open source project makes less progress without a leader, someone who steers the ship and has the final say. Bitcoin core is at a point where core devs just want to avoid all controversy and stay silent and let people fight out. We need more versions of core in other programming languages built from the ground up and implement all consensus rules similar to btcd. Bitcoin core needs more competing implementations where you have leaders who are willing to hit the merge button and publish a release with CTV for example so that people can run the fucking thing.


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THE CONSENSUS CONUNDRUM
Bitcoin faces a one-of-a-kind leadership problem
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A lot of consensus-change proposals for bitcoin are on the table a...