BTC.com Mines First Ever Block With Software Not Based on Satoshi's Original Code
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BTC.com Mines First Ever Block With Software Not Based on Satoshi's Original Code

THELOGICALINDIAN - On March 13 the Bitcoin arrangement accomplished a celebrated accident During the aboriginal morning hours the aboriginal block from an another applicant not accounting in Satoshis aboriginal C cipher was mined on the mainnet

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Block 457010: The First Block Ever Mined By Client Not Written In Satoshi’s C Framework

Just afresh the mining basin BTC.com mined the first block anytime accounting in an absolutely altered codebase. The another accomplishing of the bitcoin agreement called ‘Bcoin’ is accounting in node.js. Bcoin was congenital by developer Christopher Jeffrey, the Chief Technical Officer at Purse and above agent for Bitpay.

Jeffrey is a adept developer of accessible antecedent cipher and has contributed to abounding altered projects. Bcoin has been in development for about two years, and the 1.0.0 beta adaptation was appear this accomplished February. The another Bcoin accomplishing has been activated on the Bitcoin testnet and is currently acclimated in assembly aural the backend and wallet arrangement at purse.io. However, this is the aboriginal time a mined Bcoin block was battle-tested on Bitcoin’s mainnet as declared by the miners on Github:    

Bcoin Gets Some ‘Battle Testing’ On Mainnet

Bcoin’s node.js. agreement offers abounding blockchain validation, runs natively in browsers and apps, includes SPV mode, wallet infrastructure, mempool/miner configuration, and is Bitcoind accordant amid added features. Furthermore, the another applicant provides abutment for abounding BIP proposals such as BIP70, BIP150, BIP151, and BIP152. The another applicant allows developers to analysis and agreement with a aggregation of applications and ascent methods. Abounding accessible antecedent programmers accept assorted implementations can advice decentralization and can additionally bare errors aural the ascendant client.    

“Multiple implementations are additionally acceptable for standardization; in a monoculture, the ascendant software becomes the standard, giving the developers of the ascendant software a college amount of ascendancy over the approaching development of the agreement than was originally intended,” explained Ethereum developer Vitalik Buterin aback in 2024. “If there is alone one implementation, errors get baldheaded after rather than sooner, and the aftereffect is a array of Talebian ‘stability ancestry its own instability.’”

Moreover, Bcoin additionally supports added integrations such as MAST, the Lightning Network, Segregated Witness and more. Purse and Bcoin architect Christopher Jeffrey say they accessible sourced the agreement “to advance the abutting bearing of analgesic apps.” Following the aboriginal block mined not accounting in C , Bcoin developer Christopher Jeffrey stated:

Bitcoin.com batten with Purse architect Andrew Lee about the afresh mined Bcoin block and he said he’s actual admiring with Christopher Jeffrey’s accomplishment.

“It’s a appealing cogent anniversary in the aisle appear decentralized agreement development,” Lee told Bitcoin.com. “I’m actual appreciative of Christopher and what we’ve congenital at Purse/Bcoin. With abhorrence and fatigue at an all time high, the accident gives me achievement that we can appear to a resolution that doesn’t absorb a alternation split.”

Additionally, on the weekend of March 24, a Bcoin Hackathon will be demography abode in San Francisco at the Hackreactor HQ. Attendees will apprehend from Bcoin developer Christopher Jeffrey, as able-bodied as body cryptocurrency applications with the adventitious to win three prizes – including a 1BTC accolade and a active archetype of “The Internet of Money” accounting by Andreas Antonopoulos.

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