Question: [Bus Factor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor) ([Youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSFDm3UYkeE&feature=youtu.be#t=16m15s)) is the

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> total number of key developers who would need to be incapacitated (as
>  by getting hit by a bus) to send the project into such disarray that
>  it would not be able to proceed
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What is the current bus factor of the Bitcoin standard client?

Answer: 
Eleven. The answer is definitely eleven.
It's somewhere between zero and a hundred million. I don't think anyone can place it any more narrowly than that.