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From: Eric Lombrozo <elombrozo@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <55B84CAF.9020601@bitcoins.info>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 22:17:33 -0700
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To: Milly Bitcoin <milly@bitcoins.info>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn't
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> On Jul 28, 2015, at 8:46 PM, Milly Bitcoin via bitcoin-dev =
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>=20
>> GUYS, WE=92VE KNOWN ABOUT THESE PROBLEMS AND HAVE TALKED ABOUT THEM =
FOR
>> YEARS ALREADY=85AND IT SEEMS PRACTICALLY NOTHING HAS HAPPENED=85
>=20
> What is the incentive for someone with high level technical skills to =
spend all their time developing and testing code?  Especially since the =
code is generally the boring task of "fixing the plumbing" and won't =
benefit the developer directly ... except they will be blamed if =
something goes wrong.
>=20
> Russ
>=20
>=20
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Some of the most highly skilled technical people working on Bitcoin Core =
have been doing exactly that! The main incentive, of course, is that =
later on you get to work on something that=92s actually pleasant to work =
on rather than a whole bunch of garbled crap that doesn=92t work =
properly.

However, the great irony is that the devs who have long since recognized =
the importance of fixing these issues have also tended to be loathe to =
touching any of the consensus code unless it fixes some critical =
immediately exploitable security hole=85while the devs who most clamor =
for consensus code changes have tended to all but ignore these issues =
entirely.

I sometimes wish it were the other way around.

- Eric

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