Quote from: vit05 on May 27, 2018, 07:03:23 PM

Quote from: kiddikoddi on May 27, 2018, 05:35:53 PM

There are literally dozens of bitcoin core alts right now out there but it is very hard to weed out the definition of what an alt is

Nope. There are various Bitcoin forks. But Bitcoin Core is just a Bitcoin client. There is no currency called Bitcoin Core, so there is no fork of it.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Clients

A bitcoin client is the end-user software that facilitates private key generation and security, payment sending on behalf of a private key.

Actually, there is an altcoin called "Bitcoin Core" now:

https://thebitcoincore.org/

Of course, it's just another shitcoin, but this has a very special goal: To use Roger Ver's politician tactics against himself. The point is that Roger Ver usually uses his big megaphone in the form of Twitter, other social media, or live TV appearances, to call Bitcoin "Bitcoin Core", so now whenever he calls Bitcoin "Bitcoin Core", he will be talking about the altcoin called "Bitcoin Core". So the bigger this BTCC altcoin gets, the more exposed he will get for trying to mislead the public, as they will learn Bitcoin. It is pretty funny.

Remember when he used to call Bitcoin "Bitcoin Segwit"? Then he switched to "Bitcoin Core", and if this altcoin gets big enough, he would have to change it to something else. The guy is such a relentless scammer.

Quote from: Carlton Banks on May 24, 2018, 03:36:03 PM

Quote from: cellard on May 23, 2018, 04:14:23 PM

Bitcoin Knots: This is developed by Luke Dash Jr and has some experimental features that sometimes are added into the Core client: https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin
Libbitcoin: I think this one was founded by Amir Taaki: https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin

I would reconsider these two also.

Bitcoin Knots is not a re-implementation AFAIA, just a forked version of the standard Bitcoin client with additional features (no consensus breaking features)
Libbitcoin is supposedly just a library, if that's correct then it shouldn't be possible to execute libbitcoin as a client in it's own right

It depends on how specific you want your remit to be.

Good remarks, but a bit overkill maybe. In a way every existing client is a fork of the original client with changed/polished stuff, so I think Knots should know as its own client in this list. Im not sure how Libbitcoin works, never tried it, I just was told it was a proper client you can run, I will have to look into that.

Quote from: buwaytress on May 24, 2018, 12:24:18 PM

This one, Gocoin (also written with Golang as BTCD above) is still listed on the Bitcoin wiki. Just checked and the last commit on Github was 9 days ago, so it looks like it's still being actively developed: https://github.com/piotrnar/gocoin

The thread on BCT also seems to be relatively active as is the OP/developer replying on it since 2013.

Cool, I added this one, seems to meet the criteria but will need to read more later. I like that it has cold storage features. I would like to see cold storage features in Core to sign tx offline and so on, all nicely integrated in the GUI Armory style.