Hal Finney’s proposal for optimizing Bitcoin to be enabled in Bitcoin Core
A bit tangential but I have a question. This is one thing that I don't really understand about bitcoin, how open is it, to be declared free from government influence? The power of the core technology still resides with who ever has the key to push changes, and there lies a lot of vested interest. Like an external agent can still influence the devs who are making the changes and then majority of the nodes to accept that change. Its not really resilient to outside forces, right? Or am I missing something?