[gruez]

>History is written by whoever has the github.

Not really, just because a change is pushed to the github repo, doesn't mean the network (and its participants) will automatically accept it. Those unhappy with the changes can always fork the network if they want.

[richardknop]

But that never in reality happens. All the forks of Bitcoin or Ethereum are mostly irrelevant. The majority will blindly follow core devs in both cases as have been proven by a long series of forks that became irrelevant very quickly as most people stay with the core version (Bitcoin or Ethereum Core Devs).

[gruez]

that wasn't the case with the segwit rollout on bitcoin. despite the feature being merged and released, miners were able to hold up adoption for months

[__s]

As seen in their very example: ETC exists distinct from ETH