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Why is bitcoin based on a reference implementation instead of an interface with a strong test suite for consensus rules?
Always heard multiple implementations could lead to bugs causing a hard fork.
Is it really so? Given bitcoin's importance, why can't we find a solution to this problem?
Bitcoin Core can and probably will be captured.
#asknostr
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