409 sats \ 3 replies \ @spraveenitpro 21 Oct 2022 \ on: I'm Peter Todd, cryptochronomancer/web-π dev, AMA bitcoin
What would be a low hanging fruit to help with Bitcoin core development, I know some python and JavaScript.
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319 sats \ 2 replies \ @petertodd OP 21 Oct 2022
The tests are written in Python. Improve them!
I personally did a bit of work improving the script/opcode tests back in the day. Lots of interesting consensus-critical details there.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 22 Oct 2022
Can you do this with basic python skills?
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd OP 22 Oct 2022
Probably. Or at least you can learn while you're doing it. I haven't looked at that code for awhile. But I don't recall it being especially tricky or anything.
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