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Board Development & Technical Discussion
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Re: How many Bitcoin Core alternatives do exist?
by
Carlton Banks
on 23/05/2018, 17:41:50 UTC
⭐ Merited by ebliever (2) ,ETFbitcoin (1)
BitcoinJ: Very old client from back in the day

Still has a team maintaining & updating it (driven by Andreas Schildbach's work on Bitcoin Wallet on the Android Operating system), but it shouldn't be on this list, because:

  • Cannot be used for a full validating node (validates block headers only, then resolves transaction validity using BIP37 bloom filters)
  • Is only a library; does not function as a standalone, executable Bitcoin client