Bitcoin Core Has More Contributors Than Developers, And That’s OK
Contrary to popular belief, having more developers does not make things go any faster by default. It is not overly difficult to come across a controversial topic in the Bitcoin world these days. A new Reddit discussion erupted over the number of people actively contributing to Bitcoin Core development. The team claims roughly 100 people are involved, yet only 30 made actual commits last month. But does it even matter in the end, as long as there is progress? It has become apparent the Bitcoin community sometimes nitpicks about the strangest things. Granted, Bitcoin Core claiming to have....
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“Satoshi left us with a monolithic blob of a codebase.” That was bitcoin developer Cory Fields’ way of saying that, despite the innovation it’s often credited with, Bitcoin Core's code is kind of a mess behind the scenes. It’s a problem Fields and others have been grappling with since at least 2015, when he presented his plans to move around one piece of the code: the peer-to-peer layer. The problem developers often encounter is that the components are not all neatly separated. So, if developers change something that’s only supposed to impact one portion of bitcoin and how it functions,....
Editor's Note: This is a letter to the community written and signed by many of the Bitcoin developers, including the most prolific contributors to (at least) three separate implementations of the Bitcoin system. Signers of this letter represent about 90% of the commits in the last year or two to Bitcoin Core, according to Greg Maxwell. As active contributors to Bitcoin, we share this letter to communicate our plan of action related to technical consensus and Bitcoin scalability. Bitcoin is many things to many people. However, the development and maintenance of Bitcoin is a human endeavor.....
Bitcoin price reversed to the downside after a failed attempt on the resistance ceiling. As it turns out there are negative elements among the Core developers – further biasing price to the downside. Negative social mood will pull any commodity down. Last night, a tranquil Saturday night on the Andaman sea, I sent the following truncated message to the Bitcoin-developers list: Sincere gratitude to the core developers and all Core contributors. Despite pervasive negative social mood towards this group and its productive output, Bitcoin continues to improve in its security, the efficiency of....