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Title: source code reading Post by: drakoin on May 05, 2014, 11:19:39 PM ... there are already bounties for block explorers, for games, for faucets, for pools, ...
What about (crowd)bounties (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=406049) to have the source code of a new coin thoroughly checked!! How to operationalize that? Let's brainstorm. Especially pools, and exchanges could finance a "certified ... stamp" to show that some effort has been put into proof reading the sourcecode, from an independent side. How could reliable code readers earn reputation, a bit like escrows? What are your thoughts on this ... thx! http://files.overclock.net/images/smilies/thumb.gif (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=184146;sa=showPosts) --- Me need: pay me if you want me to continue to afford to spend time and share ideas here: 17v4HC9bW5MTagCUAgCn977LAD4xc8RQPU Title: Re: source code reading Post by: Snax on May 05, 2014, 11:39:08 PM This is a much needed thing, I'm glad someone is trying to incentivize and reward it. It would certainly stop people from creating malware wallets like we've seen...
Title: Re: source code reading Post by: cryptos on May 06, 2014, 12:33:54 AM Ya need experienced programmer to validate these coins before someone else gets taken to cleaners
Title: Re: source code reading Post by: David Latapie on May 06, 2014, 12:49:06 AM Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Title: Re: source code reading Post by: Titan on May 06, 2014, 01:21:06 AM A quick count shows about 400,000+ lines of code in Bitcoin 0.9.1!
Checking a code base like this is a highly nontrivial task. git ls-files | xargs wc -l 1 .gitattributes 84 .gitignore 19 COPYING 4 INSTALL 160 Makefile.am 71 README.md 5 autogen.sh **** 594 src/util.h 66 src/version.cpp 51 src/version.h 2075 src/wallet.cpp 865 src/wallet.h 963 src/walletdb.cpp 133 src/walletdb.h 418370 total Title: Re: source code reading Post by: David Latapie on May 06, 2014, 02:11:20 AM A quick count shows about 400,000+ lines of code in Bitcoin 0.9.1! 400k lines of code is not much. Code auditing is not done by hand anymore, except in rare occasions (like FreeBSD audit)Checking a code base like this is a highly nontrivial task. Title: Re: source code reading Post by: cryptos on May 06, 2014, 04:11:12 AM 400k lines of code...thanks for the info
Title: Re: source code reading Post by: drakoin on May 06, 2014, 09:33:47 AM https://www.google.de/search?q=code+comparison+tools code comparison tools
https://www.google.de/search?q=diff diff https://www.google.de/search?q=windiff windiff Is there a way to always know from which code a new coin has been forked? Then it needs "only" incremental comparisons from that codebase. Title: Re: source code reading Post by: drakoin on May 06, 2014, 09:42:04 AM Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Etiam. Admodum. Quod est magni momenti quaestionem. Hoc est quod intelligitur, cum dicitur: "Num merentur scripta legentes lucrentur famam, a frenum sicut escrows?" :) (https://translate.google.com/#en/la/enjoy%20your%20day) Title: Re: source code reading Post by: drakoin on May 18, 2014, 04:37:15 PM any new ideas about this?
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