102 sats \ 1 reply \ @tomlaies 11 Apr \ on: Should we stop relying on Bitcoin Core to introduce soft forks? bitcoin
Unpopular opinion but this is another consequence of having only one major implementation. But it's not too late to change that.
Luckily we made a better decision when implementing Lightning specifications.
I am very sympathetic to the multiple implementations argument.
But I also am a big fan of how many eyeballs are focused on core. The odds that core ships some horrible thing AND it gets widely adopted without someone noticing are low.
I wonder how we get another implementation up to roughly equal review. Knots and libbitcoin have been around for a long while and are still one or two person projects.
Perhaps one of them becoming the vehicle for championing a soft fork would be a shortcut to dramatically ramping up their developer base.
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