Bitcoin Q&A: Governance and Social Attack Immunity Video

Who are the maintainers of Bitcoin Core and what are their privileges? What is the difference between contributors, committers, and maintainers? How do we build Bitcoin's immune system against social attack? How do we achieve decentralized decision-making? Pay attention to the technology, not the people. Regulation in Bitcoin is done algorithmically, not politically.

NOTE: At 2:21, I forgot the name of Samuel Dobson, the wallet maintainer, but his name has been included in the video subtitles.

More about the Bitcoin Core project:
https://bitcoincore.org/en/team/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/contact/
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/contrib/verify-commits/trusted-keys

Jameson Lopp: "Who Controls Bitcoin Core?" - https://medium.com/@lopp/who-controls-bitcoin-core-c55c0af91b8a

Chapters
0:00 Who are the maintainers of Bitcoin Core? Is it possible to know what privileges they each have at any given time?
3:04 Who has commit access to the repository?
5:45 Do you think there are threats that are maybe not sophisticated, not so scary, but for which Bitcoin is less prepared to react? Something that can be technical or social, something subtle or unexpected, toxic and unhealthy for Bitcoin?
9:01 I have a question about governments, governance, and decisions in this system. How do we make decisions in a decentralized protocol?

These questions are from the Polish Bitcoin Congress (Polski Kongres Bitcoin), the Seattle 'Internet of Money' tour event, and the December monthly subscriber session, which took place on May 12th, November 10th, and December 15th 2018, respectively.

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French, 'L'internet de l'argent' (v1) - https://www.amazon.fr/Linternet-largent-Andreas-M-Antonopoulos/dp/2856083390
Russian, 'Интернет денег' (v1) - https://www.olbuss.ru/catalog/ekonomika-i-biznes/korporativnye-finansy-bankovskoe-delo/internet-deneg
Vietnamese, 'Internet Của Tiền Tệ' (v1) - https://alphabooks.vn/khi-tien-len-mang

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