ETH removes section of their github following a state authority inquirygithub.com/ethereum/ethereum-foundation-website/commit/769b30603504b4b5e8f601f8014691a8d1821390
1236 sats \ 7 comments \ @south_korea_ln 21 Mar bitcoin
Removed section:
The Ethereum Foundation (Stiftung Ethereum) has never been 
contacted by any agency anywhere in the world in a way 
which requires that contact not to be disclosed. Stiftung Ethereum 
will publicly disclose any sort of inquiry from government 
agencies that falls outside the scope of regular business 
operations.
Seeing how the government can easily target the Ethereum Foundation and its leaders, playing devil's advocate, having one dominant Bitcoin implementation, what power could authorities have over the Bitcoin Core team, if things start heating up? I imagine there are copies maintained on other repositories other than Github? Or is Github in this case a single point of failure?
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @OriginalSize 21 Mar
ETH has been centrally managed from inception. The biggest mystery is how it has flaunted securities laws for 10 years without a reckoning.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zenul_Abidin 21 Mar
what power could authorities have over the Bitcoin Core team, if things start heating up?
There is none, because Bitcoin Core contributors cannot be held accountable to make these changes, and the members of the Github bitcoin organization itself are not in any position to make unpopular changes unless they want the codebase to be forked to another repo.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @doofus 21 Mar
https://github.com/ethereum/genesis_block_generator/issues/21
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @0xIlmari 21 Mar
I imagine there are copies maintained on other repositories other than Github?
Every time someone clones the repo, it becomes a standalone complete copy of all the code and its history, and you can keep it up to date by fetching regularly (I alone have two copies because I run two nodes and I build them from source). Git is like Bitcoin in that regard.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 21 Mar
Yeah, my question is a bit weird on second thought. I also had cloned it locally at some point. It would be trivial to use Gitlab or any other version control service if Github ever decides to review its policies...
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xIlmari 21 Mar
There are also open source alternatives like Gitea. But a centralized service isn't even needed. Git was designed from ground up to allow pulling peer-to-peer, it's just less convenient.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 21 Mar
I see. I think i even remember someone working on a NOSTR variant, but that's maybe a false memory. Anyhow :)
EDIT: indeed, there is... https://github.com/NostrGit/NostrGit (last mod 1 year ago though)
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