correction ill fix your quote
Compare to Bitcoin:
1. No premine
2. Bitcoin Core control protocol. but that's not nearly as bad as Vitalik and crew Ethereum Foundation entirely controlling the protocol
3. Soft forks only
4. Nodes are cheap and easy to run but less decentralised due to downsteam, stripped, pruned, nodes
5. Bitcoin PoW is a ASIC farm majority(not solo mining).. managed by only a couple dozen pools, but not as bad as the Eth staking custodians
2. no other devs/team has been allowed to even propose a protocol change, let alone be left to see if anyone adopts it in years(REKT) without cores blessing or involvement
3. because of the trick of code core changed to not need network wide consensus to activate core new features
5. yes there are many farms dotted around the planet, but gone are the days of 1 cpu 1 vote
as for why we need to stop brushing things under the carpet while dreaming utopia. mentioning harsh truths will keep your eyes open to look at the central points of failure and be alert when they get even more worse..
dont just downplay it to old words of a decade ago pretending bitcoin cant become centralised, look for the weak points, dont shy from them. scrutinise them
pretending bitcoin is fine(fully decentralised) is what the frog thought when he was cozy and warm in the saucepan of water on the oven hob
Last I checked updates have only ever been performed with vast majority consensus and have waited to get that consensus. So not sure what you're talking about there.
Yeah Bitcoin Core is the main dev team because it inherited from Satoshi, so that isn't surprising. My point was that is still a lot better than the situation with Ethereum where Vitalik and crew make all the decisions and hard forks to their hearts content and everyone has to go along with it or get kicked off. Bitcoin Core has at least settled on an inclusive strategy of not kicking anyone out, and only doing updates that get strong consensus. Bitcoin Core leads the direction of updates yeah, but the community controls if those updates actually get implemented, and any users who don't want to comply don't have to and are still part of the network once an update does get approved and implemented by the network participants.
The 1 cpu 1 vote argument doesn't even make sense tbh. It was NEVER 1 cpu 1 vote. That was the idea the concept was based upon, but in the actual protocol Satoshi had to do what is technically possible. There is no perfect way to assign a vote per computer or network participant without centralization, so ironically your desire for 1 cpu 1 vote would ONLY work on a very centralized system. If designing a 1 cpu 1 vote system was doable in a decentralized system he would have just done that. What is technically possible is 1 hash 1 vote, which of course is the system he actually set up. It's still the exact same system today, it's not like Bitcoin changed away from Satoshi's system to something different. It's just that Bitcoin is so popular and there's a huge economic engine driving that competition, which means instead of individuals competing with their home desktop we have individuals, companies, govts, etc competing in a grand global decentralized competition with purpose-built machines. Don't let unattainable ideals blind you to reality. Nothing has changed, you're just pretending an ideal existed that never did.
As I pointed out. Bitcoin decentralization ain't perfect (basically what I was referring to there is the development operations, in that Bitcoin Core is dominant, even though its still a lot better structure than at least most other cryptos including Ethereum), but its a hell of a lot more decentralized than any other cryptocurrency. Bitcoin's strong decentralization, as compared to the rest of Cryptos relatively rather tame decentralization, is one of the things that makes Bitcoin so unique! So the idea of claiming Bitcoin (by faaaaaarrrrrr the most decentralized cryptocurrency) isn't decentralized and that fairly centralized or even highly centralized cryptocurrencies are more decentralized....well that's just plain stupid. It gets claimed all the time and its always someone with an agenda to try to prop up specific cryptos by lying about Bitcoin. Honestly its shameful and is part of the scammy culture of the altcoin community. You aren't making a good argument by trying to defned that shameful lying simply because you're mad that Bitcoin is only very decentralized and not the perfect unattainable ideal of decentralization.
