Do you have an opinion on the use of Knots? And its requirement to use DATUM?
Discussion
Knots demonstrates the difficulty of alternative node implementations. It's barely different from bitcoin core and requires a ton of upkeep from one of the earliest and most accomplished bitcoin core devs. It's not independent of Core, IMO.
Hypothetical: I want to build a bitcoin node for mining that doesn't use the mempool or p2p layer. It needs to run the exact same blockchain consensus code but I want to rip out the rest and write something new from scratch. How would I do it?
It's not feasible. I would have to create and maintain a fork that includes all of the stuff I wanted to delete. I can't just run the same consensus code that bitcoin core runs.
Thank you for taking the time for this reply. As a less technical user, takes from people like yourself help me to align myself with what is hopefully in the best interest of bjtcoin 🙏
Sjors, who knows better than me, doesn't seem to think it's that difficult.
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