Quote from: VeeMiner on March 12, 2013, 08:30:51 PM

Quote from: bullioner on March 12, 2013, 02:18:46 AM

Quote from: alexkravets on March 12, 2013, 02:01:44 AM

Another way to state the real problem: There is no Bitcoin Protocol Spec, most semantics buried in the hairball of the C++ reference implementation

Yes. This will be the death of Bitcoin. When a fully specified crypto currency comes along, it will leave Bitcoin behind. "The implementation is the protocol specification" is wrong, and at Internet scale it is very wrong.

this is fixable though

It IS fixable. Let's see if this the latest episode provides enough motivation for devs and Bitcoin Foundation to start even talking about BPS 1.0, so far there's been clear lack of any will for a spec, instead all the usual ("we are all just victims of the original C++ hairball dropped on us by Satoshi", or "there is too many bugs we cannot ever fix b/c some ancient client might depend on them" are brought out and reheated over and over again)