On the eve it became known that the leading developer of Bitcoin Core Vladimir van der Laan "was disappointed in the coins." These rumors stemmed from his Twitter post, in which he complains about the decision of other developers of the Bitcoin support team. If he really decides to relinquish his powers, a serious question arises - how the disappearance of the leading representatives of Bitcoin Core could affect the cryptocurrency itself. To answer this, the journalists decided to interview another Bitcoin guru, Adam Beck. Recall that Bitcoin Core is the main Bitcoin client, created by Vladimir van der Laan. The latter is the leading developer of the project, and he took this post on April 8, 2014. The current version of the program is Bitcoin Core 0.20.1, the release of which was announced by the developers on August 1, 2020. You can download the update from the link. However, do not forget that to work with a client, users need to download the entire transaction history of the cryptocurrency network. The developers recommend having about 300 GB of free memory and then expanding it by 5-10 gigabytes every month. Bitcoin's future prospects Why is Laan's personality so important? The fact is that now he is perhaps the most important person after Satoshi Nakamoto himself. Laan controls the main Bitcoin Core repository on the GitHub platform. This means that he has the authority to merge or merge new code. In simple terms, Laan is the main one who oversees the upgrades and maintenance of the technical base of the Bitcoin protocol. Here is a quote from Vladimir from Cointelegraph. In it, he expresses dissatisfaction with what is happening within the cryptocurrency community and the reactions of some of its representatives. It's horrible to see how many people go forks for one variable name and then hate the "Core" command. Obviously, all the rest of the work you have done is no longer counted. I definitely don't get paid that much to put up with it. it sucks to see the amount of people going pitchfork mob over one variable name, then hate on "core" apparently all the other work you've done doesn't count i definitely don't get paid enough to put up with this - 74810b012346c9a6 (@orionwl) September 7, 2020 Some users took the last sentence literally and offered to support the developer with donations. However, he refused. Thanks for the offer! But that didn’t mean that I was asking for money, I’m just not sure that I want to continue doing this at the moment. Bitcoin is a very interesting project, but it is also extremely stressful, which also has consequences. I may have quit coins.