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Board Speculation
Re: Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP.
by
sickpig
on 02/06/2015, 13:25:03 UTC
We have no guarantee that Bitcoin Core is self-consistent (like it wasn't in March 2013). Due to the way that code was written, it's likely that we never will have such a guarantee.
If memory serves 2013 hardfork was more a "dependency" bug imho. Client with ver <= 0.8.0 cant's store block bigger than 512KB due to a Berkeley db default misconfiguration. It could have happened with any other external tool used by the client.

That said I fully agree that we need to decouple the protocol definition from bitcoin core.

In that regard what do you think about the plan to isolate the consensus code in a separete library?