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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Bitcoin needs more full time developers?
by
behindtext
on 14/02/2014, 17:32:55 UTC
First rule of software engineering: more man months!=better software.

i couldn't agree more.

if there were more developers, then the core devs couldn't bask in the limelight of their celebrity without really hacking. i said this and more in a recent blog post i penned

https://blog.conformal.com/redecentralization-robust-developer-network/

it may also be worth noting that the proposed fixes to bitcoind's wallet code are insufficient to fix the real problem per

https://blog.conformal.com/transaction-malleability-no-shortcuts-allowed/

upshot with tx malleability is that _all_ wallets, not just those at exchanges and wallet services, need to properly make the identificatoin A = A' (mod mutations). half-ass solutions will not fix this problem.