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Who controls Bitcoin?

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No one. There's no CEO, headquarters, or board. The rules are enforced by everyone who runs the software.

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Developers can propose changes, but a change only takes hold if the people running nodes choose to adopt it. That makes the rules very hard to change, which is the point.

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