I mostly made this topic so I could reply here rather than writing up a blog entry of my own. 🙂 So… A few thoughts: I’m not convinced multiprocess is the right way to split things out of core in any meaningful way – as far as I understand it, multiprocess is intended to leave its affected components fairly tightly coupled, so changes to core or the gui or the wallet would likely affect the multiprocess api, and be annoying to coordinate/sync across repos. I think multiprocess/cap...| Delving Bitcoin
Thanks @AntoineP for thinking deeply about this subject and @ajtowns for relaying. I’m not sure Antoine’s “obvious” is obvious to me: Bitcoin Core’s userbase is indirectly all Bitcoin users, [so] how to prioritise development becomes quite clear. Bitcoin Core should be a robust backbone for the Bitcoin network I think it’s weird and non-obvious to define your users as including people who don’t directly use your software. My ISP presumably uses a bunch of software to manage the ...| Delving Bitcoin
@AntoineP wrote three interesting blog posts on Bitcoin Core: Antoine Poinsot - Bitcoin Core project direction “I think we are in this situation where everybody is working on their own thing and there is no broad agreement about what the scope of the project should even be. As a consequence, year after year we keep piling up more code, more features, more RPCs, etc… with at best a constant amount of competent reviewers’ time. This is not tenable, as a focus which gets further dispersed ...| Delving Bitcoin
This week’s newsletter links to a proposal to encrypt P2P communication and describes Lightning Loop, a tool and service for withdrawing bitcoins from an LN channel to an onchain transaction. Also included are links to resources about bech32 adoption, summaries of popular questions and answers from Bitcoin Stack Exchange, and a list of notable code changes in popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.| Bitcoin Optech
A proposition of a scope for the Bitcoin Core project| Antoine Poinsot
What should be the vision and long term goals for the Bitcoin Core project?| Antoine Poinsot
A route to re-focus the main Bitcoin Core repo on its core mission.| Antoine Poinsot