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From: Monarch <monarch@cock.li>
To: Eric Voskuil <eric@voskuil.org>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org, libbitcoin@lists.dyne.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Your Gmaxwell exchange
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:08:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ec50844ebf2109364e87af0ab1a623af@cock.li> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55E5F05E.9060409@voskuil.org>

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 fork, is a
> major commitment.
> 
> Common consensus check code is now available in several bitcoin
> implementations. The claim that this is outrageously difficult is
> misleading. It's just engineering work that needs to get done if 
> Bitcoin
> is to survive.
> 

There's no requirement for there to be multiple interpretations of the
consensus code, this is why libbitcoinconsensus exists.  Why do you
think Bitcoins survival is predicated on reimplementation?


> These are issues that affect the satoshi client as much as other
> implementations, and therefore don't support your premise.
> 

I'm aware that these problems apply to Bitcoin Core.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-01 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-31 20:06 [bitcoin-dev] Your Gmaxwell exchange Monarch
2015-08-31 20:27 ` Justus Ranvier
2015-08-31 20:48   ` Monarch
2015-08-31 21:24     ` Allen Piscitello
2015-08-31 21:42       ` Monarch
2015-08-31 21:54         ` Justus Ranvier
2015-08-31 22:53           ` Monarch
2015-08-31 23:24             ` Justus Ranvier
2015-09-01  0:02             ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-09-01  9:25           ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-31 23:32       ` Peter R
2015-08-31 23:47         ` s7r
2015-09-01  2:16           ` [bitcoin-dev] Let's kill Bitcoin Core and allow the green shoots of a garden of new implementations to grow from its fertile ashes Peter R
2015-09-01  2:25             ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-09-01  8:42             ` Adam Back
2015-09-01 10:16               ` Chris D'Costa
2015-09-01 11:20                 ` Monarch
2015-09-01 12:24             ` Wladimir
2015-09-01 22:06             ` s7r
2015-09-01 11:44           ` [bitcoin-dev] Your Gmaxwell exchange Monarch
2015-09-01 11:11         ` Monarch
2015-09-01 15:59           ` Dave Collins
2015-09-01 16:51             ` Monarch
2015-09-01 18:37               ` Eric Voskuil
2015-09-01 20:08                 ` Monarch [this message]
     [not found] <CAEgR2PFB3h_8fr=d8HegRSD0XdooimhFKtLR4vKr2QXv+EwBfQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <AD284610-4F40-445C-A074-CC94EDFFCBA8@gmx.com>
2015-08-30  3:25   ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-08-30  4:13     ` Peter R
2015-08-30  4:57       ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-08-30  6:38         ` Adam Ritter
2015-08-31 18:55           ` Justus Ranvier
2015-08-31 19:11             ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-01 20:29             ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-09-02 18:51               ` Justus Ranvier
2015-09-01  2:30           ` Oliver Petruzel
2015-08-30  7:41         ` Peter R

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