Re: How many Bitcoin Core alternatives do exist?

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.

Yeah, it would seem the library extends the client with libbitcoin explorer and Bitcoin explorer, which are command line apps. Interesting to find out that it was previously called Obelisk... which is the name of an altcoin protocol (Skycoin) that claims to have developers formerly associated with early Bitcoin devs. I'd always wondered where that link came from, I suppose this is it, and the dev in question probably is Taaki himself.