Landmark Event For Bitcoin: First Full & Independent Wallet

[Carlton Banks]

Can this client build Block templates and accept/propagate block solutions on the network? Does it have a name yet? (I thought sx was the name of your toolset?)

This is a wallet. libbitcoin is the client and can do any Bitcoin thing you want really because it has a powerful API: http://libbitcoin.dyne.org

Ah, so it's a reimplementation with different separation of the network uses to how the Bitcoin Foundation backed team are doing it. Very much the sort of protocol complete software that should be produced.

I will at some stage try to get this working with my p2pool setup, has that been tested yet? Presumably p2pool needs to receive broadcasted information about the current block (to the specified port...) and the rest takes care of itself? I am hesitant to try it, as there is no small chance I may find a block (particularly as I've been unlucky with regards to block finding up till now, it'd be sensible to expect at least one before we move up another magnitude of difficulty). Don't want to go down in history as the blockchain forking devil miner  

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[Chaoskampf]

This looks good, though I can't wait for picocoin

[Mike Hearn]

Just a minor correction - bitcoinj has had a fully verifying mode for many months now. It was written by Matt Corallo. MultiBit doesn't use it out of the box because like all fully verifying implementations it's very slow, but you could make a MultiBit with bitcoind level verification just by tweaking one or two lines of code.

So whilst it's great to see libbitcoin develop like this, what Amir is saying is not correct about it being the first or only such reimplementation. Indeed, the block tester that Gregory mentions was written by Matt in order to verify the bitcoinj full mode worked properly.

[akaihola]

This thread has lots of information about full node implementations. I recently asked about the status of such software at http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/12821 with no answers so far.

I intend to maintain my question and keep the status of each implementation updated based on answers I get.

[genjix]

So whilst it's great to see libbitcoin develop like this, what Amir is saying is not correct about it being the first or only such reimplementation.

You know that's not true. libbitcoin was a full implementation since 2011. You were also claiming in another topic that I'm not a Bitcoin developer.