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Coercion is irrelevant in software anyway, no one is coercing anyone to not fork away at the extreme.

But the lack of neither spec nor extractable kernel, makes running anything but bitcoind not feasible.

Don't take it from me, I already heared at least one core dev describing the kernel library as necessary to reduce the pressure and liability on the Core team.

An ossified kernel, one day, will make Core much less mission critical to Bitcoin, as just another client, probably not even the most popular, while consensus remaining safe.
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Nuh 6mo ago

I am not just saying this to be argumentative, I am deeply in favor of reference implementations vs spec and beps and nips.

But that position HAS to be combined with as simple reference implementation as possible so people can use it while still being able to customise it to serve their needs.

Again, Core itself understand this which is why the kernel is necessary

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