Anatomy of the Bitcoin scaling debate, Part II: Bitcoin Core development

https://medium.com/@paulennis/an-analysis-of-the-bitcoin-scaling-debate-part-ii-bitcoin-core-development-developers-e9afa3dca15#.4vef01dyw

'In this section I need to do some legwork regarding the Bitcoin Core development team and their development process. This is required because Bitcoin is unusual in organisational terms because it is, by design, a nominally decentralised network (with no leader or an “absent” one). Nonetheless there are quasi-hierarchies operative. Chiefly between the developers and the mostly Chinese miners. We’ll be visiting these miners in the next few articles. How is consensus arrived at? The question is immensely complex when we are referring to the wider Bitcoin ecosystem, but the straight-up development process is much more direct...'