From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 32AAB135B for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:44:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from cock.li (cock.li [176.9.0.140]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 90ABCE0 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:44:05 +0000 (UTC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 11:44:04 +0000 From: Monarch To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org In-Reply-To: <55E4E7AA.6010905@sky-ip.org> References: <602b978abcedd92fbed85f305d9d7bfe@cock.li> <55E4B8C9.5030606@openbitcoinprivacyproject.org> <5A3D7824-F1E3-421B-A32A-0EF21DD215BD@gmx.com> <55E4E7AA.6010905@sky-ip.org> Message-ID: <4ed6151886030c9daddcb8fd2dca5d76@cock.li> X-Sender: monarch@cock.li User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.9.5 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Your Gmaxwell exchange X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Development Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 11:44:06 -0000 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 something to play with. > I don't think code quality is of a particular problem in alternate implementations, the difficulty of getting it right is simply astronomical. If you attempt to re-implement just transaction signature verification you run into edge cases remarkably quickly, most use of Bitcoin today barely scratches the surface of what was added to Bitcoin for future expansion. https://jonasnick.github.io/blog/2015/05/09/fuzzing-bitcoin-consensus/