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Originally Posted by jscott
If i withdraw my BTC to paper and trade them for cash at local crypto meetups, who controls my BTC then? Which developer and which exchange? peer-to-peer usage is a great benefit of crypto.
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I have to kind of disagree with you there. Bitcoin is like any other open source projects, where egos, socially inept larger than life personalities, and politics get in the way, but in this instance the stakes are much higher. In addition, the 'Core' client is basically the de-facto Bitcoin network, but any changes are controlled (or lobbied) by a small group of people.
One of the bitcoin devs (gregory maxwell) went rogue on wikipedia several years ago. Borderline batshit crazy (ok, let's call it 'disruptive') kind of stuff. This is the guy who can change code in the Core client.
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comment...toxic_gregory/