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Re:Bitcoin Core 26.0 by ellis0n on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @01:33AM (#38527762)
Don't trust to bitcoin core as "open source". It is well encrypted enterprise with a lot anti-human traps. I spent a year to decrypt it
Re:Bitcoin Core 26.0 by kylebenzle on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @01:42AM (#38527800)
Are you referring to the, Blockstream hijacking of the GitHub repo?

It was one of the oddest stories in Bitcoin history how a for profit company led by Greg Maxwell and Adam Back wrestled the keys away from the one legitimate contributor Gavin Andresen, then put every remaining coder on the payroll.

As you say, Bitcoin Core is Not open source in the normal meaning.

Re:Bitcoin Core 26.0 by ellis0n on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @01:52AM (#38527839)
I mean legal obfuscation, that’s why so many commits are made in an application of a little bit functions so that no one can figure it out how it works. I've worked with a lot major forks of Bitcoin Core since 2010, DASH, PIVX, Komodo, etc. All of them using obfuscation techniques. The same technology is used by many corporations for "open source" JS, for example. I was downvoted by BTC owner bots for my experience, which means I'm right. Not many people in the world know how the BTC works.
Re:Bitcoin Core 26.0 by olalonde on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @05:31AM (#38529153)
What are you talking about? Can you link to a source file with such "obfuscation"?
Re:Bitcoin Core 26.0 by nullc on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:22AM (#38556629)
This claim is maliciously false and from prior comments I see that you know it. Particularly since it names me by name I must insist that you withdraw it.
Re:Bitcoin Core 26.0 by nullc on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:14AM (#38556535)
This is a maliciously false and baseless lie. Were it true, you could simply link to an example of it in the repository.

I've read all the changes to the project for essentially its entire life and there is nothing like that nor would anything like that be accepted by many users or the ordinary review process.