📩 [Anaysis] Bitcoin in Beta Longer than Gmail - Brian Cohen (March 31, 2014)

Software products, like Google's Gmail, sit in beta testing for an uncomfortably longtime. Users are now more 'co-developers,' picking and poking out the cracks and seams in software as it is used. Bitcoin ($BTC) adopts this principle while looping it into a greater understanding of democratic governance. As Bitcoin grows, more people are reliant on it meaning its ability to fail shrinks. Satoshi understood this principle, as he expressed Bitcoin's nature as "set in stone" upon its release. Still, Bitcoin changes with consensus in software updates via hard forks. Bitcoin is an expression of both perpetual beta testing and conservative governance.