From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace•org>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>,
libbitcoin@lists•dyne.org
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] On Rewriting Bitcoin (was Re: [Libbitcoin] Satoshi client: is a fork past 0.10 possible?)
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 12:11:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150215171100.GC21269@savin.petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALqxMTFDVfOai0Y=O7UWrk5pk5pWSMz+FGedJngEZ-V=bDjGTg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 11:04:49AM -0800, Adam Back wrote:
> 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.
It's worth remembering that one of the goals in writing - or to be more
precise, separating - libconsensus from the Bitcoin Core codebase is to
make it easier to maintain strict consensus between Bitcoin Core
versions.
> I would advise any bitcoin ecosystem part, wallet, user to not use software
> with consensus protocol rw-writes nor variants, you WILL lose money.
>
> You could view bitcoin as a digital signature algorithm speculatively
> tinkering with the algo is highly prone to binary failure mode and
> unbounded funds loss.
>
> Want to be clear this is not a political nor emotive issue. It is a
> critical technical requirement for security if users of software people
> write.
The necessity of it isn't a political or emotive issue, but the
consequences are definitely political. Just not in the way that most of
the ecosystem appears to think.
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2015-02-14 13:13 ` Peter Todd
2015-02-14 14:23 ` Tamas Blummer
2015-02-14 19:04 ` Adam Back
2015-02-14 19:29 ` Bryan Bishop
2015-02-15 17:11 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2015-02-14 20:00 ` Jorge Timón
2015-02-15 0:05 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-02-15 17:02 ` Peter Todd
2015-02-15 17:13 ` Tamas Blummer
2015-02-15 17:21 ` Peter Todd
2015-02-15 21:48 ` joliver
2015-02-19 3:32 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2015-02-19 3:44 ` Peter Todd
2015-02-19 5:22 ` Tamas Blummer
2015-02-19 5:27 ` Tamas Blummer
2015-02-19 14:03 ` Bryan Bishop
2015-02-19 14:09 ` Tamas Blummer
2015-02-19 17:16 ` Jorge Timón
2015-02-19 17:30 ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-19 21:43 ` Sean Gilligan
2015-02-19 22:53 ` Angel Leon
2015-02-20 3:47 ` Jorge Timón
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2015-03-25 8:04 ` Eric Voskuil
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