The difficulty of writing consensus critical code: the SIGHASH_SINGLE bug



Summary:

Tamas Blummer asked Peter Todd if forking would work best with a freeze of the consensus code. In response, Peter suggested that forking the codebase rather than rewriting it would be a better option to ensure proper implementation of the protocol, safety in mining, and actual usage. He added that rewriting Bitcoin Core is a fun project but terrible politics. No other information or context was provided in the given message thread.


Updated on: 2023-06-09T03:53:43.519498+00:00