10 sats \ 0 replies \ @amaluenda 13 Nov 2023 \ on: Help me answer a friend's question: are core maintainers a centralization risk? bitcoin
The core devs are not a centralization risk because they're only a part of the network comprising the Bitcoin consensus (agreement between people on a fixed set of rules). They can influence or make changes as much as they want but that doesn't mean the other parts of the network will go along.