The below was written by CSW on the following link: https://medium.com/@craig_10243/why-the-protocol-is-set-7db4f764c97c Disclaimer, think for yourself. --- "Bitcoin is only decentralised when power is removed from developers and others who can change the protocol. That is the point. The argument about decentralisation is about decentralisation of power. The only method to maintain decentralisation of power is to set the protocol and lock it. It must be set in stone. When, as with BTC (SegWit Core) or ETH (Ethereum post DAO), you end up with a few developers who have the ability to alter the protocol, you have the power to impact a large number of people — which is not decentralised as claimed but rather highly controlled. The same matter of course is what the developers seek to cover and hide. They want power, they want control, and they achieve the same by misleading others into believing that the protocol needs to change. An example scenario To discuss the matter, I wi...