From: Monarch <monarch@cock•li>
To: Peter R <peter_r@gmx•com>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Your Gmaxwell exchange
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 11:11:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b7c2ba6e785e59595c2ee9a4596f097@cock.li> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A3D7824-F1E3-421B-A32A-0EF21DD215BD@gmx.com>
On 2015-08-31 23:32, Peter R wrote:
> On 2015-08-31, at 2:24 PM, Allen Piscitello via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> It is my opinion, then, that we should support multiple
> implementations of the Bitcoin protocol, working to reduce the
> network's dependency on Core.
>
That would be incredibly foolish given the history, where even heroic
attempts at making consensus compatible re-implementations have ended
rather poorly. bitcoin-ruby and btcd have collectively had numerous
consensus failures, some only recently found by fuzzing the scripting
environment. There are more failures than publicly disclosed, and
almost any failure can be leveraged to split the network and steal
money. Ethereum attempted to create four clients, written to a
defined specification, and even with all the money in the world has
managed to have numerous consensus failures due to misunderstanding or
implementation.
> I agree. What about decentralization in development? Gavin recently
> said that he wants to "get to the point where there will be multiple
> robust implementations of the core protocol."
>
Gavin clearly hasn't kept up with the ridiculousness of that task.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-01 11:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-31 20:06 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 [this message]
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
[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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