Oddbean new post about login | logout You might not know how huge this is, but its really damn huge! nostr:nevent1qqsqe8s03xarvn2mlr78p9wkmyxzkcm5cp6an6kdaltg3zyyrs6yq3gpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygpwkqap7vtv8nuujq8875mwu289fp35jpnmuqv2jed8cl99knml8spsgqqqqqqs2hnptc
What does this mean
The guy built his own Bitcoin full node in three weeks. And its in consensus with the other node implementations. Like, wtf! That's possible because the consensus logic has been decoupled from Bitcoin core into libkernel.
And for the noobs among the plebs: why is that huge?
Bitcoin consensus is very fickle. It's not defined in a specification, but the first implementation, now called Bitcoin Core, is the defacto spec by implementation. For example, they changed the database used in the software, and even that triggered a hard fork! So if you would want to build your own node from scratch, you have to implement all the quirks of Bitcoin Core, including some bugs. For example libbitcoin is another implementation of Bitcoin from scratch, but this took decades to implement by the most genius bitcoiner I know off. Since the libkernel is extracted from Bitcoin Core, it has all the quirks and bugs included, so now devs can more easily build their own custom node with custom features.
got a TLDR on why it's huge?
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Just saying something is huge, doesn’t make it so. You’re in an attention economy. At least make a case rather than trying to clickbait people into it.
This is for low time preference people who read the replies 😉
I’m in the replies. My time preference is plenty low but that doesn’t mean I’m willing to waste time on click bait with zero persuasion behind it.