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CD79: lightning development, bugs, and the path forward

Citadel Dispatch

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I'm Not a Software Engineer, but I Did It Once, When and Again

The first bug was unintentional. It was due to a parsing issue. And then in the following vase, I had this this urge, this inner feeling to my gut telling me to break it more. In LND in particular, it relies on the BTCD, which is an alternative implementation of Bitcoin. So from what I can tell, yeah, I think BTCD is a good implementation. For the record, I'm not against alternative implementations. In fact, I'm in favor. I think diversity is overall good for Bitcoin,. Whether it's lightning implementations or Bitcoin. I think more diversity is good for the long term, although it may be scary for the short term.

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