The history of Conformal Systems, btcd, and Core go way back. For a trip down memory lane: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=192880.0
May 1st 2013
Kinda sad that they've nearly spent 10 years chasing the impossible goal of perfect compatibility with Bitcoin Core.
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Conformal maintained it for a long time before forking the code to create Decred. Why Lightning Labs opted to maintain/use the code is almost as crazy as the creation of the code itself.
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