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Re:Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon by VMG on Saturday October 05, 2013 @11:21AM (#6500913)
Both implementations should run in parallel, differences in behavior will show bugs in either implementation.
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Re:Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon by gcb1 on Saturday October 05, 2013 @03:52PM (#6501816)
you can detect bugs with one running alone as well. but so what.

if i run one without the bug and accept a payment, you and millions with the bug will just say "meh. this one does not match. will just drop it" and my transaction goes out of the main block.

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Re:Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon by VMG on Saturday October 05, 2013 @06:13PM (#6502282)
Some poorly-defined edge cases can only be found with alternative implementations. These are the edge cases that will cause trouble in a network with only one implementation.
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