Re:Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon
by jedunnigan on Saturday October 05, 2013 @12:42PM
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Yea, this is one of those things where that argument gets tricky.
On the flip side one could argue that diversification of implementations is key to the long-term success of Bitcoin. If, let's say, there is a serious issue with bitcoind that shows up somewhere down the road that causes a fork and it is the only implementation everyone is using, there will be a network-wide problem. If there are a number of implementations in the wild, the fork would be contained to a smaller subset of users, and managed accordingly.
Getting to this point of diversification safely is difficult, however, which is why I imagine some of the core devs might be against it. I remember Amir Taaki got a lot of flack when he came out with libbitcoin.
On the flip side one could argue that diversification of implementations is key to the long-term success of Bitcoin. If, let's say, there is a serious issue with bitcoind that shows up somewhere down the road that causes a fork and it is the only implementation everyone is using, there will be a network-wide problem. If there are a number of implementations in the wild, the fork would be contained to a smaller subset of users, and managed accordingly.
Getting to this point of diversification safely is difficult, however, which is why I imagine some of the core devs might be against it. I remember Amir Taaki got a lot of flack when he came out with libbitcoin.