The Bitcoin Development Grant website cited the following principles as a foundation upon which to establish common ground:1. No “Official” Bitcoin: No particular bitcoin protocol is to hold claim to being the “official” version of bitcoin.2. Multiple Implementations: Diversity of bitcoin protocol implementation and a variety of development teams is considered a net gain for the bitcoin community.3. Diversity of Innovation: Having more developers and more development teams will bring more diversity of innovation and solutions to the problems facing a growing industry.4. Bitcoin is Leaderless: No team of developers has decision-making authority for the entire bitcoin community.5. No Censorship: Disagreement is healthy within a complex community. Discussion, debate and dissent bring benefits but require communication channels to remain free and open. While the right of private communities to run themselves as they see fit will be respected, the signers of this statement implore the bitcoin community to reject censorship and support those platforms where the free and open discussion is permitted.
