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Good Afternoon,

Talk about the present and the future is misguided if it concludes that 
the decentralisation of a project itself is responsible even if the 
operation of the project is to produce a specification, and a software 
capable of performing transactions in a decentralised manner. There is 
no advantage or disadvantage to the project to have several choices of 
the software implementation unless buffoons are misguided and wish to 
attack fungibility or consensus, which the operation of consensus must 
defend, in which case use [Bitcoin Core at version 
21](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/0.21) and [create a 
fork](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/fork-a-repo) and 
start developing. As you can see [Bitcoin Core version 20 has been 
modified](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/branches) and no longer 
passes checks similarly with version 18 which makes it more difficult to 
compile make build. A person't own contributions are theirs, to delegate 
is responsible, to try and create a seven headed lion to keep under 
command like one would a gryphon is an infirmity.

Creating a properly delegated organisation, being a foundation for the 
purpose of the maintenance of the consensus of Bitcoin a fungible 
decentralised currency and the Bitcoin Core software is the sort of 
thing I would easily consider but it is far more centralised to be an 
operable concern. In short, as at the beginning, Bitcoin needs a few 
heroes that can understand the whitepaper and write software and if the 
work is too much one organisational foundation that does is correctly 
stewardship. To decentralise one's own work only requires that there are 
several offices available for those you employ to delegate to, but still 
there requires for your project a headship.

Once the currency is fungible as you should now consider, just today 
there was a public announcement that the Commonwealth Bank Of Australia 
is going to allow buying and selling Bitcoin as one of its services, the 
primary requirements are to defend the existing consensus as the right 
of trade in every UTXO has value because of that consensus, and 
particularly because of the ease of that trade.

I do not expect anybody is eligible to be dictated to in the Bitcoin 
project, but people, be sensible, everybody has worked hard and the 
project is becoming a success. Opportunities to further develop the 
software of the coin and the protocol do not form part of the current 
value, hardly. Several groaning seven headed lion's are 
counterproductive if all they do is search for opportunities for change. 
Change is the diametrically opposed of consensus and is consensus that 
brings fungibility. You can already make any manner of instrument for 
smart contract with your solicitor's office. What is necessary is the 
operation of the Bitcoin protocol. The alternative to the deliberately 
chosen consensus is a democracy, and you cannot build any software with 
democracy, and people do not know what is good for them or they could 
govern themselves. A few lessons in history assures government is 
necessary to enshrine law and insist as the delegates of democracy for 
its operation, to ensure a civilised and decent civility can exist.

Please, if you have concerned for Bitcoin, revoke your positions until 
you fight for consensus.

KING JAMES HRMH
Great British Empire

Regards,
The Australian
LORD HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES HRMH (& HMRH)
of Hougun Manor & Glencoe & British Empire
MR. Damian A. James Williamson
Wills

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On 2021-11-05 01:17, Prayank via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Hi Kate,
> 
>> He is taking the most sensible way forward, decreasing bus factor.
> 
> Agree. Work being shared with other maintainers is an improvement.
> 
>> Read: https://laanwj.github.io/2021/01/21/decentralize.html
> 
> Interesting blog post. First paragraph talks about strange
> expectations, not sure what other people expected however I expected
> present maintainers will always have respect for the Founder of
> Bitcoin, keep important docs in repository, website etc. forever and
> respond with appropriate things if any rich scammers try to remove
> anything important. Anyway that chapter is over and this PR will
> always remain in history for others to see and make their own opinions
> about it: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoincore.org/pull/740
> 
> What followed it (whitepaper being shared on different websites) was
> true decentralization and we need something similar in other aspects
> of full node implementations. Few things that can improve
> decentralization:
> 
> 1.More people using alternative full node implementations. Right now
> 98% of nodes use Bitcoin Core.
> 
> 2.More people like Luke Dashjr and Amir Taaki who do not simp for
> anyone. Being a contributor or maintainer in Bitcoin full node
> implementation is different from other open source projects. It was
> never going to be easy and it will get difficult with time,
> 
> 3.More people from different countries getting involved in important
> roles.
> 
> 4.Few anons.
> 
> 5.Individuals and organizations who fund different Bitcoin projects
> should consider contributing in alternative. full node implementations
> as well. Maybe start with Bitcoin Knots.
> 
> I am sure lot of people will find this controversial or disagree with
> it however this is my opinion and things that I think can improve
> Bitcoin. Will quote something from my recent medium post about a dev
> meetup and Knots:
> 
> Accepting the problems, looking for solutions and trying to improve
> things is the best approach we as engineers can follow to do better
> things in Bitcoin. Irrational optimism is as toxic as irrational
> pessimism.
> 
> https://prayankgahlot.medium.com/op-halloween21-and-bitcoin-knots-b8a4da4fa0bd
> 
> Only ~1337 blocks left for Taproot to activate. So cheers to another
> soft fork being a success and Bitcoin improving regularly. Thanks to
> everyone who contributed including reviewers. Hoping most of the
> people will start using latest version of Bitcoin Core or other full
> node implementations soon.
> 
> .
> 
> --
> 
> Prayank
> 
> A3B1 E430 2298 178F
> 
> Oct 21, 2021, 01:48 by mercedes.catherine.salazar@gmail.com:
> 
>> Hi Owen,
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 9:25 PM Owen Gunden via bitcoin-dev
>> <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 04:47:17PM +0200, Prayank wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> It seems confusing to have two sites that seemingly both
>>> represent
>>> 
>>>>> bitcoin core.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>>> There is only one website which represents Bitcoin Core full
>>> node
>>> 
>>>> implementation. You can download Bitcoin Core from
>>> 
>>>> https://bitcoincore.org
>>> 
>>> I also notice that, as of 22.0, Wladimir is no longer signing the
>>> 
>>> releases, and I have no trust in my gpg network of the people who
>>> seem
>>> 
>>> to have replaced him.
>> 
>> He is taking the most sensible way forward, decreasing bus factor.
>> 
>> Read: https://laanwj.github.io/2021/01/21/decentralize.html
>> 
>>> Given the level of security at stake here, my eyebrows are raised
>>> at
>>> 
>>> this combination of items changing (new website + new gpg signers
>>> at the
>>> 
>>> same time).
>> 
>> Don't worry and build your own release;
>> 
>> but if you do, always verify the tree hash.
>> 
>> Trust signed annotated tags.
>> 
>> Cheers!
>> 
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