Would Bitcoin suffer if the lead maintainers were kidnapped by aliens?
Cointelegraph
Published Sep 11, 2020 06:30PM ET
Updated Sep 11, 2020 08:00PM ET
It is a question that many in the crypto community must have asked themselves at least once. The news of Wladimir van der Laan taking a temporary hiatus, prompted us to explore what some might consider to be an improbable, yet highly impactful situation.
A Bitcoin Core developer that is also a maintainer of the project's GitHub account (i.e., someone who can “merge code into the master branch”) is a rare commodity. To put this in perspective, if a Bitcoin Core developer is a black belt, then someone like van der Laan is a third-degree black belt.
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