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I mean no disrespect to Gavin Andresen whatsoever. I think someone needs to be at the head of the project and Satoshi has stepped down / disappeared / gone back to the NSA / returned to his home planet / choose your conspiracy theory.
But why Gavin? What's the succession plan? What if Gavin gets tired of the project and chooses not to work on it any more? There certainly are core contributors, but exactly how is the "organization" set up? I know there's no actual "organization", but what I mean is the people in charge of the direction of the Bitcoin project.
You may want to search for a video of Gavin's talk from the NYC conference, where he addressed some of these points. – Meni Rosenfeld – 2012-05-02T14:14:20.440
3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ljx4bbJrYE#t=2m35s is the talk Meni's referring to. The production quality is pretty poor, but I don't know of a better copy. At around 6m30s he starts talking about how he became the project lead. – Chris Moore – 2012-05-02T16:39:42.897