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Szerző: Noel Maersk
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Tárgy: Re: [unSYSTEM] New releases for libbitcoin/Obelisk/sx
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 03:38:33PM +0000, Amir Taaki wrote:
> not too major difference, but now with next release I want to introduce
> some major feature changes.
>
> we also have a libbitcoin mailing list too: libbitcoin@???
>
> On 06/01/14 14:55, Taylor Gerring wrote:
> > Amir, thanks for continuing to develop and mature these tools.
> >
> > Are there any feature differences between 2.0 and 1.4 or are most of
> >the changes on behind the curtains?


So far there seems to be no incompatibilities between the previous
versions and current.

Regarding future releases - tphyahoo is proposing many changes to the sx
tools, which IMO make sense:

https://github.com/spesmilo/sx/issues?state=open

A quote of a quote from [libbitcoin]:

> "I find sx currently most valuable as a teaching/learning tool for how
> signing and script works at a low level, that is easier to use than
> bitcoind; and possibly as a proof-of-concept for other more useful tools
> that will ultimately be built on top of libbitcoin. (like darkwallet)"
>
> -> Exactly. I originally hoped for SX as a way to get more people
> familiar with the internal parts of Bitcoin.


And, of course, a specialised blockchain database to replace LevelDB:

https://wiki.unsystem.net/index.php/Libbitcoin/Blockchain

I suggest if we continue this discussion, we do so on [libbitcoin].