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BItcoin Core.

Again people make the same mistake over and over again.

Do you know what the Bitcoin consensus is? Do you understand? What consensus exists if there is only one dominant implementation and everyone abides by its changes?

Here are some implementations of the Bitcoin protocol:

Bitcoin Core

Bitcoin Knots

Bcoin

Blockcore

BTCD

Gocoin

Libbitcoin Node

When a new version of Bitcoin Core comes out, think that if you run it, you are voting in favor of those changes, no matter how few they are. Be cautious and think about the importance of consensus.

From my point of view it is necessary that we have several dominant implementations, this would strengthen the consensus and make bitcoin more resilient to problematic changes.

I'm not saying that version 0.25 is bad, far from it, but think of each version of Bitcoin Core as a vote to the network, don't vote without thinking, it's not just updating the software.

I feel as if in many ways the Bitcoin community has failed to understand certain things, especially the "influencers".

Too ignorant of technology with thousands of followers.

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134355345 2y ago

Since most upgrades do not touch consensus rules, I view them as routine "security upgrades". But maybe the code does not really need any more changes. Core devs are paid with grants, and I suppose they have to do something otherwise why paying them.

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