Is It Dangerous To Have Multiple Implementations Of Bitcoin?
What are the implications for having multiple implementations of the Bitcoin protocol? Do the positives outweigh the potential bugs and other issues?This is an opinion editorial by Bill Scoresby, a bitcoin-based small business owner and writer of several guides for bitcoin self-custody.The bugs that recently caused many LND nodes to fall out of sync with the Bitcoin blockchain were probably caused by an alternate implementation. Perhaps you are wondering, “Who in the world is using anything other than Bitcoin Core?” You might not have known that other implementations of....
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