Murch307d agoI have been seeing some claims that "Bitcoin Knots is part of the Bitcoin Core project", that "Bitcoin Knots is just another release of Bitcoin Core", and that "Bitcoin Knots has more contributors than Bitcoin Core".
Bitcoin Core has about 40 regular contributors with over a thousand past contributors. The Bitcoin Core project releases its software on bitcoincore.org. Bitcoin Core releases are signed by several Bitcoin Core contributors and other community members. Releases are attested to by this community.
Bitcoin Core’s source code is released under the MIT License. The MIT License is a permissive open-source license permitting anyone to do almost anything with the licensed code.
Bitcoin Knots is a project fork of Bitcoin Core. Bitcoin Knots appears to be developed by a single developer pushing directly to master without peer review. Bitcoin Knots releases are composed of Bitcoin Core’s source code modified with a patch set of about 1400 commits. The same individual unilaterally issues releases. There is no indication that anyone else has ever contributed code or review directly to Bitcoin Knots. Bitcoin Knots is not endorsed by the Bitcoin Core project.
Claims to the contrary appear to be based on a unique individual perception of reality.
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Murch307d agoI do. What's up with the leading questions? Are you working up to my code being released in Knots? I'm well aware of that, and that's an obvious possibility from most of my work being freely licensed.
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Murch307d agoThe other developers work on the upstream project, Bitcoin Core. It is not clear to me why you think he's joking. Irrational takes like this are par of the course for him.
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Luke Dashjr307d agoNo, there isn't. Stop making things up if you're supposedly "on no side"
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Murch307d agoNo, people contributing to the upstream project are part of the process in the upstream project. Their review also benefits the downstream project as their code contributions are released with the downstairs project, but they are not participating in the downstream project's process.
Your restarting it like this makes me think that the distinction is not clearly understood.
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Murch306d ago1. I don't understand why people think Peter Todd is a regular contributor to Bitcoin Core. I don't think I've seen him make that claim, I've certainly not seen other contributors make that claim, and as far as I can tell, he has made three commits since 2016.
2. You will have to ask Peter why he said that and how he meant it.
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Murch300d agoFor context, Bitcoin Core has something like 240'000 lines of c++ code.
I don't intend to take the time to go through someone of that magnitude, but if you want to take a look, here's the diff: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/compare/28.x...bitcoin…
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