[xinayder]

I like that no one brings up the question that Bitcoin is not really decentralized. Most of the Core devs are paid by a company (iirc it was Blockstream but might've changed), and ultimately, the paycheck they receive dictates which direction the most used Bitcoin wallet should go, which dictates the direction of the project as a whole.

There were several attempts of merging important BIPs, which were rejected because some developers thought it wasn't in line with the direction their employer wanted.

[coolKid721]

the issue you are talking about just came up where core basically just did what mining companies want. The result was 14% of nodes now use bitcoin knots a fork of core that doesn't allow that. Core is just 1 github repo it only matters until it doesn't.