> So how do we decentralize that or at least level that playing field?

I had a list of potential things to do when schmidty's v30 PR wouldn't get merged. My favorite one was: _Host a repository of tested, vetted source patches and automate the regressions._ Add a single dedicated EPYC box with some massive disks and you can run guix builds all day every day and provide proper binaries too.

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Improving bitcoin's social processes is very fun to think about. IMHO money, infrastructure, and dev centralization are downstream of attention/influence centralization; attention is how money etc find their home. So how do we decentralize 

While I'm sympathetic to the theory that multiple clients fixes this, I think winner-takes-all via network effects will continue to be the norm so long as humans are interdependent. Perhaps it's another case where credible exit, a competitive threat, is the best we can do.

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Hot damn, I love me a moderate take.

Improving bitcoin's social processes is very fun to think about. IMHO money, infrastructure, and dev centralization are downstream of attention/influence centralization; attention is how money etc find their home. So how do we decentralize *that* or at least level that playing field?

While I'm sympathetic to the theory that multiple clients fixes this, I think winner-takes-all via network effects will continue to be the norm so long as humans are interdependent. Perhaps it's another case where credible exit, a competitive threat, is the best we can do.