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by fanquake 3132 days ago
"nor do they recognise the importance of having robust netcode"

Refactoring of the core networking code has been ongoing for quite some time. See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/projects/4.

"Can you name anybody with a good background in networking? You can't point to a list of 100 odd names and assert that certain skills must be present"

sipa? He worked as an SRE at Google before starting work on bitcoin. [1]

rustyrussell? He has done extensive work on the linux kernels networking subsystems. [2]

cdecker? He did a phd at the Distributed Computing Group in Zurich which included work on scaling bitcoin. [3]

gwillen? Also a SRE at Google before bitcoin, and worked on Dapper[1].

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/pieterwuille

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Russell

[3] https://disco.ethz.ch/alumni/cdecker

[4] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
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Laforet 3132 days ago
Pieter's background is in algorithms and cryptography, he's not a networking engineer. The other people you mentioned are solid but their involvement in development is fairly peripheral, with only a handful of commits between them combined.

It doesn't take anything away from my argument that bitcoin's netcode is archaic and remains a major hurdle to scaling, and there is way too much political cruft to move things along.

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EthanHeilman 3131 days ago
>It doesn't take anything away from my argument that bitcoin's netcode is archaic and remains a major hurdle to scaling, and there is way too much political cruft to move things along.

1. The Bitcoin-devs rewrote the netcode quiet recently moving from a polling model to an event driven model.

2. Look at all the changes in net_processing [0].

3. There has been a long term project to refactor and improve the netcode which has been ongoing for several years and has made massive changes to the netcode. How do I know? Over the last two years I have had to rewrite pull requests several times because the netcode has been rapidly changing.

[0]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commits/master/src/net_pr...

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