Doug Huff [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-06-15 🗒️ Summary of this message: Proposal for a ...

📅 Original date posted:2011-06-15
🗒️ Summary of this message: Proposal for a new name for the Bitcoin client: "Reference client" or "Mainline client" to emphasize its status as the original implementation.
📝 Original message:On Jun 15, 2011, at 7:46 AM, Christian Decker wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik at exmulti.com> wrote:
> Here are several mini-proposals for the Satoshi Client (anyone got a
> better nickname?) along these lines, which should better prepare the
> bitcoin protocol for the long term:
> I called it Mainline client (like the original Bittorrent client) as a hint that this is the reference implementation everybody should refer to, but Satoshi Client has a nice sound too :-)


I propose "Reference client." Seeing as that's what it is, the original reference implementation.

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Douglas Huff


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