#Bitcoin Protocol: Why Slow Updates Are Essential #decentralization

14 Nov 2025 · 1 min
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In this video, the speaker contrasts a "spider" organization—a centralized, fast‑decision structure—with Bitcoin’s decentralized, slower governance model. While rapid changes can be efficient, the speaker argues that Bitcoin’s protocol handles money for many people, making hasty updates risky. Therefore, developers should take ample time to ensure correctness, and the focus should be on building long‑term, trustworthy collaborations rather than merely speed.

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  1. So what you can accomplish with a spider organization is rapid decision-making, which is often what, for example, Bitcoin is blamed for, or it's sometimes brought out as a bad thing that it takes a long time to update the protocol. Somehow it's seen that it's inefficient, which it is. However, there's a good reason why you don't mess up with protocol-level money because it's quite an important thing for quite many people. So I would like that the developers take the proper care and time, all the time they need. So definitely, for rapid changes, go with the spider one, because if you want to do something fast, efficient, right now, I don't think you can accomplish— you can if you get the right team and you get lucky, but normally it's just you have the vision and you say like, okay, shut up now, you do this, you do this, you do this. Okay, it's very efficient, it's done, right? And it can be good. So you can accomplish some things for sure faster, but if you're looking at the long term, what I care more about is, is this person going to work with me in the future?

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