On 2015-09-01 18:37, Eric Voskuil wrote:
Whether intended or otherwise this is an attack on the idea of
decentralized bitcoin development. The option to fork or roll your own
is open source, not decentralization. Decentralization requires
*actually doing so*. One step down that path, even for a f
On 2015-09-01 15:50, Kristov Atlas via bitcoin-dev wrote:
I am interested in finding or writing a fuzzer for push tx APIs. I did
not find one after a brief search. Has anyone found otherwise, or is
she in the process of writing one?
https://github.com/jonasnick/bitcoinconsensus_testcases
http
On 2015-09-01 15:59, Dave Collins via bitcoin-dev wrote:
I'd be interested to know about these supposed btcd mainnet forks that
have occurred due to a consensus failure since it came out of alpha.
I'll go ahead and save you some research time - there hasn't been one.
I'm not claiming there will n
On 2015-08-31 23:47, s7r via bitcoin-dev wrote:
The problem is there is no other implementation out there which comes
near the quality of the code in Bitcoin Core. I am actually eager to
try other implementations as well, but something serious, because
Bitcoin itself is a payment protocol not som
On 2015-09-01 10:16, Chris D'Costa via bitcoin-dev wrote:
However, I fully agree with Adam that livenet is probably not the
place to play this game, and I'm also not convinced that testnet is
either.
I often wondered if there is any appetite for a no-holds-barred,
anything goes, bitcoin fork th
On 2015-08-31 23:32, Peter R wrote:
On 2015-08-31, at 2:24 PM, Allen Piscitello via bitcoin-dev
wrote:
It is my opinion, then, that we should support multiple
implementations of the Bitcoin protocol, working to reduce the
network's dependency on Core.
That would be incredibly foolish give
On 2015-08-31 21:54, Justus Ranvier wrote:
You keep using the word "decentralized" without explaining (and most
likely, understanding) what it means.
Decentralization is a ubiquitous term within the Bitcoin, and the
definition is by no measure new or often confused. It is realizing
that syst
On 2015-08-31 21:24, Allen Piscitello wrote:
Even so, decentralization is a means to an end - not an end-goal. It
is essential for Bitcoin to be a useful alternative, of course.
The justification for the existence of Bitcoins hinges on it. What is
described in the whitepaper is a system with
On 2015-08-31 20:27, Justus Ranvier wrote:
You don't understand what value proof of work provides, or what
features
differentiate good money from poor money, and you can't make a
defensible statement of Bitcoin's value proposition.
Because you can't do these things, you assume nobody else can d
On 2015-08-31 19:11, Mike Hearn via bitcoin-dev wrote:
I think your summary of what people actually want from
decentralisation is pretty good, Justus.
I don't believe that any Bitcoin user actually cares
about decentralization, because none of them I've asked can define
that term.
+1 Insight
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