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Not to belittle the work, but it is always prudent to research what the other implementations are before possibly doing duplicate work and providing that compar

Not to belittle the work, but it is always prudent to research what the other implementations are before possibly doing duplicate work and providing that comparison along with the new work for justification of it. For example, https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Software#C https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Software#C shows picocoin (libccoin), which Github also lists as being C. What makes this or what is desired to for this to be different from the alternative(s)? It certainly seems a non-trivial matter to have completely reimplemented the necessary GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library or similar dependencies such as specific compiler extensions.

auggierose 5y ago
It's not a paper, and no academic who is not interested in it anyway is going to make stupid comments about related work. No need to justify making what you wanted to make. Well done.
vmception 5y ago
The point wasn’t for this to be desired by anyone It is just a show and tell And now we also have a new client on the network!
chjj 5y ago
Right. Perhaps I should explain this in the readme. To be clear: Libbtc is a small bitcoin library meant for everyday things: signing transactions, maintaining an SPV wallet, etc. It's good at what it does, but you wouldn't be able to actually sync and validate an entire blockchain with it. I suppose picocoin is the most similar to mako, but I think it falls short of being a "full node" in that it doesn't provide a mempool, miner, or RPC (from what I can tell). I'm also not clear on how it is storing UTXOs. It looks incomplete right now, but maybe jgarzik could give more insight on that. Mako is a _full_ reimplementation of bitcoin. It's an alternative to bitcoin core.
traceddd 5y ago
In my opinion, given the application is cryptocurrency, reimplementations are pretty valuable. It’s important to avoid systemic failure due to a large percentage of nodes having the same exploit or bug. A fully featured reimplementation like this is really great for Bitcoin!

auggierose 5y ago

It's not a paper, and no academic who is not interested in it anyway is going to make stupid comments about related work. No need to justify making what you wanted to make. Well done.

vmception 5y ago

The point wasn’t for this to be desired by anyone It is just a show and tell And now we also have a new client on the network!

chjj 5y ago

Right. Perhaps I should explain this in the readme. To be clear: Libbtc is a small bitcoin library meant for everyday things: signing transactions, maintaining an SPV wallet, etc. It's good at what it does, but you wouldn't be able to actually sync and validate an entire blockchain with it. I suppose picocoin is the most similar to mako, but I think it falls short of being a "full node" in that it doesn't provide a mempool, miner, or RPC (from what I can tell). I'm also not clear on how it is storing UTXOs. It looks incomplete right now, but maybe jgarzik could give more insight on that. Mako is a _full_ reimplementation of bitcoin. It's an alternative to bitcoin core.

traceddd 5y ago

In my opinion, given the application is cryptocurrency, reimplementations are pretty valuable. It’s important to avoid systemic failure due to a large percentage of nodes having the same exploit or bug. A fully featured reimplementation like this is really great for Bitcoin!