[granddemolisher]

> This is however contra the promise that everything is decentralized by design and not under control of a single actor

This is still decentralized because people need to coordinate to make a change. Decentralisation doesn't mean a system without human deciding what happens. It just means decentralisation of the power between the participants and ability to enter the room without creditionalism.

[tigershark]

But it demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that code is not law since they breached that law with the hard fork.

[barnabee]

That’s more of a demonstration that code is law but laws can change by the consensus of the participants, measured transparently and verifiable by their willingness to mine the fork.

That was the system working as intended, even if not everyone in the community agrees with it.

[aaaaaaaaata]

I'd say it was more like committing secrets Into an early alpha repo... understandable at that stage of the project, likely never to be repeated.