Gavin Andresen: Bitcoin Foundation Pivot Won't Centralize Core Development
Bitcoin Foundation chief scientist Gavin Andresen has publicly voiced his support for the organisation's plan to focus solely on core development. In a new blog post, Andresen defended prior efforts to support core development and stated that the Bitcoin Foundation is just one of several organizations that provide funding for the oversight of the bitcoin protocol. The statements follow the Bitcoin Foundation's formal announcement of the plan, which will find it shedding its education, public policy and outreach operations, as well as the healthy debate about the organization's pivot that....
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