2017 - Coup You!

[SpaceMonkey]

The key to ruling Bitcoin is control of the Reference Client. Once you are in charge of that, you have de facto control over all of Bitcoin. You can add features, remove them, centralize it, or change its essential character completely. Once you control the reference client, you can steer Bitcoin’s destiny. This power in Bitcoin is maintained through control of access to the software “repository” stored on GitHub.

GitHub is where additions and changes to Bitcoin are coordinated. Changes can only be made by people who have been granted “commit access”, meaning permission given to them by the owners to add or remove code from the source used to compile new versions of the Reference Client. It is the Reference Client that defines and enforces all the rules that make up the Bitcoin protocol which is Bitcoin.

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