Adam Back: Two Bitcoin interviews (back-to-back)
Crypto Voices
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Bitcoin Application Firewall
Bitcoin has, you know, under got a lot of fast testing and careful manual review. But that same kind of software complexity of message languages applies to versioning between Bitcoin versions. So the idea to make a ground up implementation in a different language that's going to with 100% fidelity is basically saying it's probably on the boundary of humanly impossible to achieve. And so we're very confident that all of the alternative implementations have divergence points that could be maliciously pinpointed and kicked off the network.
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