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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
I've read all the changes to the project for essentially its entire life and there is nothing like that nor would anything like that be accepted by many users or the ordinary review process.
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 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…
The only resentment I have with Bitcoin and any other crypto is that they try to be "decentralized", but the moment the developers of your main node/wallet app are under a payroll, funded by a business, crypto is no longer decentralized. Bitcoin Core, long ago, was "purchased" by Blockstream and they started pushing their own agenda for the protocol, and Luke Jr is one of the devs on their payroll. Yes, of course, yo…
(I am the longest serving engineer at Blockstream).
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The only resentment I have with Bitcoin and any other crypto is that they try to be "decentralized", but the moment the developers of your main node/wallet app are under a payroll, funded by a business, crypto is no longer decentralized. Bitcoin Core, long ago, was "purchased" by Blockstream and they started pushing their own agenda for the protocol, and Luke Jr is one of the devs on their payroll. Yes, of course, yo…
It's blatantly false that "Bitcoin Core was purchased by Blockstream". It's absolutely not the case. It's more like a conspiracy theory that keeps getting pushed into Bitcoin-related threads at Hacker news (maybe to tilt future analysis?) If we take a look at the past month of commits from https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pulse/monthly , the top ten authors are: - MarcoFalke - fanquake - hebasto - ajtowns - glozow…
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Your node (or the node you choose to connect to) defines what is bitcoin, according to you. Everyone gets a vote on what bitcoin is, but the definition of bitcoin that you vote for is that defined by the code running on the node you choose to connect to the network through. Running your own node let's you speak for yourself. If you connect to someone else's node you're effectively saying "I vote for whatever they're…
> Everyone gets a vote on what bitcoin is As long as you work for Blockstream Inc. If not you have effectively no say.
(I work for Blockstream, and we have no current employees in the top 10 contributors for this release AFAICT)