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Actually Satoshi was also against "diversity of clients".

“I don’t believe a second, compatible implementation of Bitcoin will ever be a good idea. So much of the design depends on all nodes getting exactly identical results in lockstep that a second implementation would be a menace to the network.” ~ (Satoshi Nakamoto).

Now the question is which client.

Pandoras box is open. Too late to close it now.
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Judge Hardcase 4mo ago

We've had our test case... and it was indeed not a good idea... for the diverging implementation (i.e. Bitcoin Cash).

This is why neither Knots nor subsequent versions of Core have any incentive to diverge from consensus.

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BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish 4mo ago

To clarify, bcash was a hard fork. Divergent node clients is an entirely different thing. I don't recall we've ever had any diverging clients to any material degree until knots. Closest thing is having some clients updating at different times. We don't definitively know, based on history, if diverging clients will cause problems.