The biggest problem in bitcoin right now is the coupling of the consensus engine with core code.
Even knots can't get away from it.
The consensus engine needs to be a spec. Just a document. But right now it's c code that is revered as the source of truth. Efforts to move it out of core are underway, but it still remains c-code and a problem until we can map it out completely in plain English or atleast pseudo code.
I thought LLMs would have solved this by now.
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2026-08-09 06:18:53 UTC
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