HTTPS isn't a consensus system. The requirements for HTTPS to work are much less stringent than Bitcoin as you don't need “bug-for-bug” compatibility.

petertodd

> You can't fight reality: computer science is yet capable of getting two different code bases to agree 100%

Have you looked into "TCP" or "HTTPS" or "JSON"? Or how every plattform in the world has a compatible Android and IOS app?

This is nonsense. Just pure cognitive dissonance.

And I'm glad that it doesn't matter anyway because we will have multiple big implementations in 10 years anyway. History goes its way like water downhill.

tomlaies

bitcoin

LND brought down by huge bitcoin transaction again

joko

The Bitcoin Core source code that does consensus _is_ the specification.

Making that spec be written in English rather than C++ won't make Bitcoin more decentralized, as the centralized debate would just be on two levels. You can't fight reality: computer science is yet capable of getting two different code bases to agree 100%