As I kept having more questions about where the project is going I made a roadmap for bitcoinbackbone, that is scheduled to cover this year 2026 and a bit beyond.
https://bitcoinbackbone.org/roadmap.html
Without surprises, priorities will be focus on testing and quality assurance. While the main subsystems are in place, it’s not time to give the priorities to add more test coverage, do the heavy work of test coverage.
The good news, after few tests, a lot of what has been nurtured by bitcoin core in terms of test coverage can be directly reused, tweaked or draw learnings on what should be tested. I’m still doing more conclusive experiments on this, especially what can be automated with ai tooling (doesn’t spare you the review time). In terms of quality assurance, there is no necessarily a need to reinvent the wheel.
We have a mailing list for the ones who wish to follow the development:
https://framagroupes.org/sympa/info/bitcoin-backbone-dev
For now, it’s just a lot of shut up and do the quality assurance work in terms of roadmap.
Excited to see you have continued development plans for the rest of the year.
I looked at some of your previous posts about Bitcoin Backbone, but I'm still a little fuzzy on the particular advantage or approach you are taking (as opposed to libbitcoin or Toby Sharpe's Hornet Node project or Floresta, for example). Have you written about this somewhere and I have just missed it?
Your website says
But I'd be interested to read a slightly expanded version of your approach.
This looks like a massive undertaking! I’m still learning the ropes, but it’s really cool to see the focus on quality and testing right from the start. Keeping an eye on that roadmap!
Genial