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Bitcoin Core 26.0

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Re: Bitcoin Core 26.0

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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

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

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The Bitcoin Core GitHub repo was long ago hijacked by the for profit company, Blockstream. Every update made since their takeover has hurt the core principal of Bitcoin, which is to be peer to peer digital cash, a replacement for Visa-like daily payments.

Re: Bitcoin Core 26.0

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I see a lot of resentment here for this software. But it’s perfectly possible to make your own implementation of the bitcoin protocol.

Like Luke, who made Knots. And other versions exist too.

The real pain comes from the choices in the past to keep bitcoin inclusive. Smaller blocks mean the ability to download and verify on simple cheap hardware.

Have a look at ETH, SOL or EOS. What kind of server park do you need to run those chains?

Re: Bitcoin Core 26.0

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post #5

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

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.

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.
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