On 2015-09-01 15:59, Dave Collins via bitcoin-dev wrote:
I'd be interested to know about these supposed btcd mainnet forks that have occurred due to a consensus failure since it came out of alpha. I'll go ahead and save you some research time - there hasn't been one. I'm not claiming there will never be one as that would be just as foolish as claiming Bitcoin Core won't have any more either.
For the purposes of the conversation this was only brought up to re- enforce my claim that this is outrageously difficult software development, irrespective of the quality of the code being produced in alternate implementations. Sorry if that came across as an attack against your software in particular, it wasn't intended.
On the other hand, Bitcoin Core has had actual forks on mainnet during the same period. I'm not casting stones at Bitcoin Core here, because as I've said many times, none of us are perfect. No matter how careful everyone is, it is bound to happen from time to time.
The point I was trying to make is that this is simply a hard development situation to be working in, we don't know what behavior is inferred by the use of CPP and even more so OpenSSL (as the DER encoding consensus failure made abundantly clear). There's almost certainly more problems lying around given how generally dusty a lot of the transaction environment is, it's very easy to get off the beaten track with Bitcoin script. _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
