Quote from: AngryDwarf on March 14, 2017, 12:06:14 AM

Quote from: HostFat on March 13, 2017, 10:32:57 PM

Quote from: -ck on March 13, 2017, 10:19:53 PM

For core version 0.12... why?

Maybe because Bitcoin Core 0.12 code is known by a very large number of people, so it can have a very good peer review.

That's one good reason for using bitcoin core 0.12 code as a base for development ideas. The other is the fact that segwit has not been activated and may never be.

So lets say someone spots a good opportunity for a code optimisation that does not affect the existing protocol of nodes. It can peer reviewed by more people. It can be integrated into other nodes such as core/classic/xt/bu easier by the developers who understand the differences from that code base.

That doesn't make sense for the former reason; the latter (integration with other codebases forked off earlier) does. There are many improvements in 0.13 and 0.14 that are totally unrelated to segwit and if segwit never gets activated the segwit code goes untouched, so forking off 0.12 is just leaving us with ancient code. The problem is everyone's rushing to get on top of each other with new proposals and choosing the shortest cuts possible. Oh well stick around long enough and *someone* will probably create a BIP100 for current core...