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Almost two years ago, when I stepped down as lead maintainer for Bitcoin Core, I wrote:
I’m pleased to be able to focus more on protocol-level, cross-implementation issues and less on issues specific to the Bitcoin Core software.
I’d still like to focus on protocol-level, cross-implementation issues but lately I’ve been distracted and have generated a lot of controversy (and hurt feelings) by helping out with some other implementations (first XT, lately Bitcoin Classic, maybe Bitcoin Unlimited soon.
Madness! Chaos! ANARCHY! … I hear some people say, but there is a method to my madness. When I was lead maintainer of Core I had the following top-three priorities:
1) Keep the system secure.
2) Keep the network reliably processing transactions.
3) Eliminate single points of failure.
Those are still my top priorities, but I try to take a higher-level view, looking at the entire Bitcoin ecosystem instead of just the Core software implementation. So if those are my top priorities, what should I be working on?
Bitcoin-the-protocol is doing really well security-wise; the responsibly-report-a-vulnerability-in-bitcoin mailing list has been quiet for many months. And seeing multi-signature “p2sh” adopted is very personally satisfying. I’m still active asking dumb questions to people smarter than me to try to avoid mistakes as the protocol evolves.
I’m still worried about reliability of the network in the short term, w…
Classic? Unlimited? XT? Core?
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