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BitcoinLizard · 3w
The big difference is that Core devs are not willy nilly changing consensus while team BIP-110 is attempting to via what I would consider a hostile takeover. The vast majority of node runners, and bas...
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Agreed, changing consensus is serious, although Core introduced a lot of functionality that has turned out to have strong side effects. Core's "monopoly" on the software is a bad situation IMO. It seems like we should have competing implementations, making it harder for anyone to push through changes.
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BitcoinLizard · 3w
In theory, competing clients is probably the right path forward. It's a giant task but hopefully libbitcoinkernel will be able to separate consensus from the #Bitcoin Core client. https://github.com/orgs/bitcoin/projects/3