"What this actually means is that no one is really in charge of bazaar-style FOSS projects. A project’s leader cannot steer the project in an unpopular direction without losing the developers he so crucially needs. Under the bazaar model, software is in a very real way controlled by its body of contributors, each with their own personal reason to be involved" [The Genesis Book by @Aaron van Wirdum] - superior decision making baked into Bitcoin

I find it encouraging how profoundly Bitcoin and the findings of the Austrian school of economics have penetrated our society. Statements that, a couple of years ago, were to be found only in Bitcoin circles are now printed in established newspapers and propagated by politicians. I just asked ChatGPT whether it is exaggerated to compare modern states and central banks to drug addicts; it will mainly accept the comparison as sound (with the caveat that some debt-financed state interventions are productive while the effects of drugs never are). This is what winning looks like: it is slow, subtle, but unstoppable.