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Adam Back: Two Bitcoin interviews (back-to-back)

Crypto Voices

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The Problem of Language Complexity in Distributed Systems

Bitcoin is extremely intolerant to differences. So if there's a bug in it, you better reproduce that bug with extremely high fidelity on your alternate implementation. Bitcoin knows it's on a different API and application messages at the network level. And so that message formats and grammars form a language.

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