On Saturday, February 14, 2015 2:23:47 PM Tamas Blummer wrote:
> We have seen that the consensus critical code practically extends to
> Berkley DB limits or OpenSSL laxness, therefore it is inconceivable that a
> consensus library is not the same as Bitcoin Core, less its P2P service
> rules, walle
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Tamas Blummer wrote:
> Peter,
> We have seen that the consensus critical code practically extends to Berkley
> DB limits or OpenSSL laxness, therefore
> it is inconceivable that a consensus library is not the same as Bitcoin
> Core, less its P2P service rules, wall
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Adam Back wrote:
> That its highly complex to maintain strict consensus between bitcoin
> versions, does not justify consensus rewrite experiments
Correct. However, those maintenance costs absolutely do justify working
towards formal proofs of correctness for th
Strongly with Peter on this. That its highly complex to maintain strict
consensus between bitcoin versions, does not justify consensus rewrite
experiments; it tells you that the risk is exponentially worse and people
should use and rally around libconsensus.
I would advise any bitcoin ecosystem p
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Arriving slightly late to the discussion, apologies.
Personally I wouldn't have written that patch, but I know development of
hostile patches happens out of sight, and if it can be written, we have
to presume it will be written eventually. I'd have p
Peter,
You did not address me but libbitcoin. Since our story and your evaluation is
probably similar, I chime in.
On Feb 14, 2015, at 2:13 PM, Peter Todd wrote:
> So stop wasting your time. Help get the consensus critical code out of
> Bitcoin Core and into a stand-alone libconsensus library,
I haven't bothered reading the thread, but I'll put this out there:
The consensus critical Satoshi-derived sourcecode is a protocol
*specification* that happens to also be machine readable and executable.
Rewriting it is just as silly as as taking RFC 791 and rewriting it
because you wanted to "de
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