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From: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" <laanwj@gmail.com>
To: Marcel Jamin <marcel@jamin.net>
Cc: Bitcoin development mailing list <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Fwd:  Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 release schedule
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 11:56:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151001095654.GB10010@amethyst.visucore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAUq4861Wd2c42gVy7SoW9414R8RGY+Yzp7rDtzagrwQewnFWg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 11:41:25AM +0200, Marcel Jamin wrote:
> I guess the question then becomes why bitcoin still is <1.0.0

I'll interpret the question as "why is the Bitcoin Core software still <1.0.0". Bitcoin the currency doesn't have a version, the block/transaction versions are at v3/v1 respectively, and the highest network protocol version is 70011. 

Mostly because we don't use the numbers as a signaling mechanism. They just count up, every half year.

Otherwise, one'd have to ask hard questions like 'is the software mature enough to be called 1.0.0', which would lead to long arguments, all of which would eventually lead to nothing more than potentially increasing a number. We're horribly stressed-out as is.

Wladimir


  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-01  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-24 11:25 [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 release schedule Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-09-29 21:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-09-30 17:57 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-09-30 18:10   ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-30 19:24   ` Jeff Garzik
2015-10-01  8:50   ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-10-01  9:05     ` Marcel Jamin
2015-10-01  9:17       ` Btc Drak
     [not found]         ` <CAAUq484+g89yD+s7iR_mGWPM3TTN7V6-EPb1ig=P1BKfcbztPg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-10-01  9:41           ` [bitcoin-dev] Fwd: " Marcel Jamin
2015-10-01  9:56             ` Wladimir J. van der Laan [this message]
2015-10-01 10:10               ` Marcel Jamin
2015-10-01 10:15                 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-10-01 10:34                   ` Marcel Jamin
2015-10-01 10:50             ` Jeff Garzik
2015-10-01 20:20             ` Luke Dashjr

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