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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by lordnacho on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @04:13AM (#13809202)
It's a good point, but there's also market forces to contend with.

If you make your new coin based on a functional language, there's fewer people who'll be able to jump in and code.

c++ looks similar enough to the other {} languages that many people will have the skills to give it a go.

Unfortunately it's different enough that you can really mess things up, but you already know that.

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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by nfd on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @04:19AM (#13809225)
I really hope amateurs with "a {} is a {} is a {} is a {}" level skills aren't working on cryptographic or financial software in C or C++. Write Rust, though, which is {}, and at least the box of hand grenades you're giving them doesn't have all the pins pre-pulled.
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