Bitcoin Has No Leader, and Maybe That's a Good Thing
It seems fairly obvious that in the world of open-source software development that anyone, anywhere can start reading code and start doing whatever they want with it. But, where it gets complicated is when that modified code wants to come back into the source repository. When a programmer starts to actually engage the project community with any ideas or code contributions that reaction can range from admiration and acceptance all the way to flat out denigration. That’s because every project has a certain culture that is created by it's members and cultivated by the project's leader or....
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