The project
Problem
Bitcoin’s chain rules are hard to change. How the dominant client is governed is mostly informal: a small group of maintainers, little cryptographic accountability, and a high social cost if you disagree.
Hard rules on the chain, soft process above it — that gap is what this project is for.
Alternative implementations face two hard requirements. First, correctness: without a shared mathematical specification tied to code, consensus divergence is a matter of when, not if. Second, coordination: without governance you can fork and audit, informal power recentralizes around whichever client wins the narrative.
BTCDecoded targets both: an Orange Paper specification, with spec-lock annotations on blvm-consensus, plus the Bitcoin Commons model: published tiers and multisig thresholds in a public repository. blvm-commons is the GitHub App. Same Bitcoin rules, with the process written down so it can be reviewed or forked.
The commons
Built on Bitcoin Commons
Forkable governance applying Ostrom’s commons principles through cryptographic enforcement.