As old men told us, Bitcoin was a dream coming true a digital money for the world till somehow the key to Github repository was lost to Blockstream.
Amaury sechet was smart and faster than others just enough to create an alternative repo with his own key and now he wants millions of dollars or their would be reorgs and a lot of troubles for Bitcoin Cash . Many exchanges and miners will get the version that well be released on that repository and he will get what he wants by default.
Multisig as an alternative to Github
Multisig is not something new to the Bitcoin world. Wouldn't be possible to release the next version by having the link to it singed by multiple parties (known respected developers) instead of just one.
Example, we well have four developers that are agreed to work on Bitcoin CBA. Those are Amaury, FreeTrader Tommy and Mark. They package this under github.com/Mark/BitcoinCBA this time and the four of them sign it and publish the link to the release on the chain and update their own repos
No Default repository for the project
Exchanges and miners will know that as the four of them have singed it then it's the legitimate version. If those four didn't agree then Miners and Exchanges don't go by default to use /amuary/BitcoinCBA or /Tommy/BitcoinCBA
There would be community debate and discussion about it and maybe another group of 4 or more developers would be created and exchanges and miners will have to do the hard work to see which one does represent the community instead of following one repo blindly.
History is repeating it self
4 years ago cipher_gnome said about Gavin Github access:
He should revoke all access and retire the project. The current dev team could then fork with a different name. There should be no mining software called bitcoin-core.
kostialevin said in a following comment:
Yes, this could be the only way to reset bitcoin development. No more reference implementation, everyone must choose its own preferred client: BU, XT, BTCD or Blockstream.
more interesting stuff in the original thread. Hope this idea could offer an alternative solution to one man control.
1400 years ago:
"and whose affair is [determined by] consultation among themselves"
success requires consultation and agreement between parties. Not just one man rule.
