>for the simple fact that the "specification" for the Bitcoin protocol was "whatever Satoshi's client does" Fully agreed. The largest failure of the so-called

>for the simple fact that the "specification" for the Bitcoin protocol was "whatever Satoshi's client does" Fully agreed. The largest failure of the so-called "developers" (pretenders after Satoshi) of Bitcoin have failed to concentrate their efforts on understanding and specifying Satoshi's code. The original Satoshi bitcoin implementation is a mess of Boost-y C++ that was clearly written by a bright guy who was steeped in mediocre C++ programming (probably on Windows). Studying the code and writing a proper specification is job number one. Adding random new features onto Bitcoin without first understanding the codebase is simply juvenile.