Morkos: Bitcoin governance rejects top-down decision-making by industry bigwigs
Alex Morkos · a16z Podcast | Hard Forks, Hard Choices for Bitcoin · Jan 2, 2019 · at 23:48
Alex Morkos discusses the upcoming Scaling Bitcoin conference in Montreal and how consensus and decision-making function in decentralized blockchain networks.
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“No, I don't think the point is to, you know, gather all the bigwigs in the room and make decisions. That's not how a system like Bitcoin works. I mean, everyone makes their own decision, and the idea is to have all the information come together so people can Sort of agree on what the best path forward is.”
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