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447 sats \ 9 replies \ @justin_shocknet 4 Sep \ on: Core & Knots aren't the only choices bitcoin
I wouldn't call BTCD obscure, literally every LND node uses its walletkit, which makes it a considerable number of economic nodes
There was one bug exploited by one of the Ark scammers that caused instances to crash a few years ago, but otherwise it's been pretty stable... Maintained by folks at Lightning Labs
There's just not much software around it, I've never ventured to see what it would take to power a mempool visualizer etc with it
I primarily run it for serving block filters
I wasn't specifically referring to BTCD as obscure. A few of the other implementations are only run by one node.
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- Bitcore -> nodejs client originally made by bitpay, still maintained
- bcoin -> another nodejs client, not-so-maintained anymore
- Bitcoin Unlimited -> very old - this is now a hardfork
- Bitcoin Classic -> hardfork
not sure:
- Bitcoin UASF -> I think this is the BIP-148 client, but tbh this was a long time ago
- TRB -> this looks very, very odd.
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Thanks for this. They're all new to me.
to mention also https://libbitcoin.info
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how can you vote for a third party?
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Ark scammers hahahahahaha
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I've tested once BTCD, back few years ago. But was using quite a lot of resources of that machine. Maybe was my fault not doing something well... idk.
Is it better nowadays?
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I've got both core and btcd running on one box and they seem to take about the same resources
btcd CPU(raw): 64.6% CPU(machine-share): 1.3% Cores used: 0.65
bitcoind CPU(raw): 56.9% CPU(machine-share): 1.2% Cores used: 0.57
Only the btcd one is public facing though, its serving block filters to neutrino clients with a high connection cap and is pretty well known, usually pumping out 20+mbps... given that, it's pretty efficient
There were some performance fixes last year iirc but I think they were mostly related to initial sync/verification
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