"That means there is no center. To make a pun, no "core." Bitcoin exists because of everyone participating in some way; buying and hodling, sending and receiving, running a node, mining, building some service or protocol on top of it. It exists as the culmination of everyone adding their contributing piece of the whole. But underneath all of those contributions and pieces, Bitcoin is ultimately a network run by software."
"Many people have filled that role over the years. The first was Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator. After him came people like Martti Malmi, Hal Finney, and many others in the years after. All of them are why Bitcoin is still here functioning today. Because software development is such a highly specialized field, much of the work of Bitcoin developers goes unnoticed, unappreciated, and in many cases not even understood by a large swath of the people around the world who own and use bitcoin."
Bitcoin has no central point of control; the network exists through the collective actions of participants who buy, hold, send, run nodes, mine, and build services. The protocol relies on software to enable those activities, and that software must be written by people. Early contributors such as Satoshi Nakamoto, Martti Malmi, and Hal Finney helped establish the system. Ongoing contributions from specialized Bitcoin Core developers maintain and improve the protocol. Much development work is technical, often unnoticed or poorly understood by many bitcoin holders. Increased understanding of Bitcoin Core development can clarify how the network remains functional and evolves.
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