Re:Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon
by javert on Saturday October 05, 2013 @12:38PM
(#6501152)
> Both the original creator and the current developers are typically against re-implementations, with good reason.
That is not true. Gavin Andressen supports alternate implementations. Take the following quote [1]:
"Diversity is a good thing. Diverse, inter-operating implementations of the Bitcoin protocol make the network more robust against software bugs, denial-of-service attacks, and vulnerabilities. There are several projects re-implementing Bitcoin; if you are a Java or Go or Python or C programmer who wants to see Bitcoin succeed, you should consider helping them out by reviewing, testing, or contributing patches."
He then goes on to list several alternatives, including btcd.
That is not true. Gavin Andressen supports alternate implementations. Take the following quote [1]:
"Diversity is a good thing. Diverse, inter-operating implementations of the Bitcoin protocol make the network more robust against software bugs, denial-of-service attacks, and vulnerabilities. There are several projects re-implementing Bitcoin; if you are a Java or Go or Python or C programmer who wants to see Bitcoin succeed, you should consider helping them out by reviewing, testing, or contributing patches."
He then goes on to list several alternatives, including btcd.
[1] https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=204