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.
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.
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.