Quote from: franky1 on January 19, 2016, 03:29:36 PM

Quote from: xyzzy099 on January 19, 2016, 03:24:06 PM

Quote from: franky1 on January 19, 2016, 03:19:17 PM

do you really think all miners are using the exact same software..

No, but they are all using the exact same protocol. If you use a different protocol, you will fork.

exactly.. protocol.. meaning the rules... not the GUI.EXE not the one sided group of programmers..

any one write the same rules(protocol) and be part of the network.. it doesnt have to be bitcoin-core or nothing
as long as the main rules are followed to allow handshaking between the nodes (no matter who programmed the node).. they can all work happily beside each other as they are all using the same rules..

some people really need to realise that bitcoin-core and the blockstream dev team are not unique. anyone can replicate the code and then change things that do not affect the main rules.. and it will still work

I don't think many big mining pools use Bitcoin-QT for mining. When I look at the debug.log in my bitcoin directory, I see many different user-agent strings from different node implementations that are not Bitcoin-Core-based. I don't think Bitcoin Core has any kind of a monopoly on node software. Or am I misinterpreting the meaning of all the different version strings?