rbitcoin: Bitcoin Full Node With Zero Human Code | reardencode SLP775

So one other thing before we get to the AI thing, I also just wanted to...

Maybe you can set the scene a little bit because this is the first episode in this little miniseries, let's say.

I'm gonna, I'm gonna try to get some other people on.

Obviously, I'll try to get Laolu on from BTCD, maybe Calvin as well.

I'll try and get some other people on.

But can you just give a sense of like, you know, rough numbers, who... how many people are using Core, what percent is on Core, what percent is on using some of the others? Like, I think it's about 80 last I checked on...

Actually, you know what? Let's just get the numbers right now, coin.dance.

Of the 25,720 public nodes running on the Bitcoin network, 21,385 are Bitcoin Core.

It says 4,300 are Bitcoin not, but I presume that's pre, obviously pre-110, you know.

Then there are 17 BTCD nodes.

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We have two libbitcoin nodes, and so it's basically it's Bitcoin Core.

Like that's-

Yeah, it's Bitcoin Core.

Can you just comment on that, on the breakdown there?

Yeah, I mean, I think as Toshi commented, there's, there's risk of consensus divergence when you run an alternative node implementation because there's no spec for, um, the Bitcoin protocol.

A- and so I think that's why all the public nodes essentially, it, it's a rounding error other than that, uh, run Bitcoin Core as their main consensus implementation.

So I've been talking with some folks since I started rBitcoin on the topic of how can we change that, how can we make it safe to run multiple implementations, and there's a lot of different opinions about that.

So, so Toby over at hornetnode, he's trying to create a written spec for consensus so that we can move away from that idea that you have to run Core to be in consensus.

If we have it written down, we can actually check every node against those consensus rules.

And then Epoch over at satd, he runs his own consensus rules in parallel with libbitcoin consensus against every, every transaction, so he's always checking with every transaction to see if he's in consensus.

Specifically, is that the libbitcoin kernel, or I think it's now been called Bitcoin Core kernel, the thing that sedated is doing, that thing or another thing?

Yeah.

Yeah, and then well-

Yeah