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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 11 Jun \ parent \ on: Other clients are a menace bitcoin
When Core shipped the inflation bug in 2017 (CVE-2018-17144) and other implementations did not have it, Core could have forked itself off from what we all know as Bitcoin.
I don't see why client diversity harms bitcoin. Do you think this is because consensus is so complicated we can't reliably achieve the same consensus with a second code base?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ZezzebbulTheMysterious OP 11 Jun
100% this. Client diversity absolutely harms Bitcoin. For some reason, nobody remembers that Satoshi warned against this very scenario very early on.
I’ve heard people say “Satoshi was wrong about client diversity”, but they were usually ethereum people. So far, in this post, not even that!
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