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I suppose we could say that this is the model started by Satoshi and followed up by a whole bunch of great open source contributors.
It is something I find a little troubling though:
I've never once paid for bitcoin software. My node, my wallet software, lightning stuff...yet I benefit from it and need it to work, in fact it is a pretty major problem for me if it doesn't work. That doesn't seem balanced to me.
It has become especially apparent in the recent arguments about filtering and Core v30. Bitcoin Core is not necessarily a public good -- but neither is it a private enterprise. It gets messier because of FOSS stuff: if I write a software project and make it FOSS, it doesn't entitle anyone to demand what I should work on or how I change the project. Just that they are free to fork it. Yet somehow with Bitcoin Core we feel that it is more than just another FOSS project.
These aren't organized thoughts, just uncertainty I've had this year.
There's always going to be tension in Bitcoin. For such an important technology, achieving social consensus is always going to be difficult. But there's no real way around it either. Despite this, Bitcoin is still our best hope for achieving currency that rests outside the control of any governments.
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