diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
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 The MIT License (MIT)
 
 Copyright (c) 2009-2017 The Bitcoin Core developers
+Copyright (c) 2009-2017 Bitcoin Developers
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal