bitcoin-core.. is not a protocol.. its not the only way.. bitcoin-core is just a implementation of code which within that code are some protocol rules..
Why don't you go and write us a Bitcoin application then?
(oh yes - you are not capable - but apparently you are capable of understanding how they work fundamentally - I think not)
It is pretty obvious to others that people like you "have an agenda".
You don't listen and you never learn.
already have my own, thank you very much..
and dont be fooled by me trying to keep things laymen.. it doesnt mean i dont know my stuff, it just means im not here to impress people with geekspeak.
i prefer to code using geekspeak and then lay out conversations in basic plain english that even an old granny would understand.
so here goes again
bitcoin-core.. is not unique..
anyone can replicate the code. and change 98% of it.. even re-write the whole thing into VB.net, C#, Ruby, Python. any language they please..
as long as the main rules hidden within the code are not broken to destroy the handshaking and data communications between nodes.
so it doesnt matter who codes it. how they are paid, what language it is wrote in. as long as the 2% of code that does the important bit follows the rules that the consensus want.. it will all talk to the same chain.. without issue.
bitcoin-core is not the only religion..
bitcoin-core is not the ony team of programmers.
trying to say bitcoin core .. "is bitcoin".. rather then "is part of bitcoin" makes you look like you want the blockstream team to be gods