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Episode 55: Syncing Old Nodes

Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin

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Getting Rid of Dependencies in Bitcoin Core

The penalty is a piece of software that you include in your software. In the case of OpenSSL, it's a very well-known dependency. It means that Satoshi did not have to implement all of the elliptic curve cryptography. And this can be especially a problem when the dependency secretly or not secretly with like accidentally imposes rules that you don't know are rules. There's probably three different incidents of that, historically, at least three.

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