145 sats \ 6 replies \ @tomlaies 14 Oct 2022 \ on: Nakamoto: Privacy-preserving Bitcoin light-client implementation in Rust bitcoin
Big fan of this. Rust is an amazing language if it did not have such a steep learning curve.
Bitcoin protocol should be based on rules, axioms and definitions - and not just the status quo of one github project.
This is awesome, hope it does not fade into irrelevancy!
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125 sats \ 4 replies \ @petertodd 14 Oct 2022
As the guy behind python-bitcoinlib, I think you should use Rust. :D
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25 sats \ 3 replies \ @tomlaies 14 Oct 2022
Wait, are you the person behind python-bitcoinlib?????
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187 sats \ 2 replies \ @petertodd 15 Oct 2022
Yup. Hence the github url: https://github.com/petertodd/python-bitcoinlib :)
I didn't write the first version of it. But I took over maintainership from jgarzik many years ago and got it into a more useful shape.
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25 sats \ 1 reply \ @tomlaies 15 Oct 2022
Afaik there are no guides for installing it yet and there are some quirks with up/downgrading some crypto dependencies in Ubuntu (apt), other Linux distros and MacOS (brew). Are you aware of that?
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125 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 15 Oct 2022
I mean, installing python-bitcoinlib is just the usual pip3 install python-bitcoinlib
I recently made a new release that I think fixes the main crypto dependency issue with missing ripemd160 support.
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35 sats \ 0 replies \ @ln_cortado 14 Oct 2022
Ditto.
Rust seems perfect for a project like Bitcoin. There's a good chance it would have been written in it were it to be created today.
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