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Btcd - a Bitcoind Alternative Written In Go!

Posted by timothy on from the bang-for-the-buck dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The folks at Conformal have announced btcd, an alternative full-node implementation to bitcoind, written in Go! They have released the first of their core packages, btcwire, available for download at GitHub. As a bitcoin user myself, I love the idea of a full alternative. It will only make bitcoin stronger and more independent. This will be great for the Go community, too!"

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  1. Re:This is good for Bitcoin by Linsaran · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Cash is only worth what people are willing to trade for it, I fail to see how Bitcoin is inherently any different.

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  2. I conclude the opposite by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Your post is extremely interesting, but the mandatory conclusion I make from it is the exact opposite of yours. If the original code is so full of idiosyncracies and gotchas then it's an extreme liability to everyone who values Bitcoin, and quite likely contains backdoors or deliberate weaknesses that are hidden by the obscurity.

    There can be no more important task for the Bitcoin community I think than to specify all elements of the static protocol and dynamic behavior of all parts, and reimplement them in other languages, especially safe languages.

    Go is certainly a good candidate for this large body of work, safe, clean, and fast.