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It's just like FOSS philosophy: Everyone can fork it. For example: SSLeay, OpenSSL and LibreSSL. Or SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0.

The one with most people use will win, why we need to afraid of diversity?

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Because they dont involve money but bitcoin does.

Almost the entire payment infrastructure of the internet relies on one of the libraries / standards mentioned in the post above, so it would be a stretch to say they don't involve money.

That's a terrible comparison, my money doesn't get locked into a specific SSL library when I use one for the first time.

I understand but they are not directly involved in the process. They provide value to other systems rather than carrying the value themselves.

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