> Mike has sincerely said that he would like "Bitcoin Core to have a > benevolent dictator like other free software projects", and I wanted > to make clear that I wasn't putting words in his mouth
He is just pointing out reality. Decentralization is really just a collection of centralized processes. If you ever want to change anything someone, somewhere has to make a decision.
Satoshi was the first dictator and he set the consensus rules for his version of Bitcoin and that is what people accepted. Those rules did not appear by magic nor did they appear via some unexplained 'consensus' mechanism. He made decisions and updated the code or accepted updates made by others.
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