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		ianpurton on May 2, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gavin Andresen's commit access to Bitcoin revoked,... There's more to it than that. Bitcoin has many eyes watching the commits so a commit from a bad actor wouldn't get very far. Secondly the devs come to some form of consensus and Gitian build is created and signed. https://gitian.org/. Thirdly, the miners decide whether to build the blockchain based on the newer version of the software.

nxzero on May 2, 2016 [–]

Do you know how Bitcoin insures the code reviews are done and there's not bias in the review process?

pas on May 2, 2016 | [–]

In theory they only do merges and everything has to go through a pull request.

Probably with this required status checks feature: https://help.github.com/articles/enabling-required-status-ch...

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