I'm posting a copy of community member Eleven's post on the stratis slack, because he makes some great points: "Strat's full node release is an exciting and huge milestone for Stratis.
For anyone who doesn't understand what this means...
Strat’s “full node” is a rebuild of BTC, from the ground up, in the widely accessible and popular programming language of C#.
The below link discussing Strat’s full node is from the perspective of an accomplished Bitcoin core developer, Nicolas Dorier, who made many contributions to Strat's full node.
My favorite quote from Nicolas regarding Strat's full node is this:
"The work of Stratis will improve Bitcoin, and the work on Bitcoin will improve Stratis. This is the kind of work I like doing."
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https://medium.com/.../stratis-and-the-bitcoin-full-node...
To me, the most exciting thing about today's release is that the doors have just been opened for millions of C# developers to take further the magic of BTC, the undisputed king of all crypto. Before Strat's full node, accessing the deeper points of what BTC has to offer was far more an inaccessible mystery. A huge language barrier has just been broken down, and I look forward to seeing the innovations that will come now that the beast has been unleashed.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this!"