And as far as I know this is really the only alternate implementation that hasn’t been completely abandoned, because it is too much of a pain in the ass to maintain an alternative. You are better of using and contributing your energy to core if you want it to function differently.

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over 1 year ago

I personally run Bitcoin knots on Windows: https://github.com/bitcoinknots or https://bitcoinknots.org/.

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almost 2 years ago

There are also other implementations, like Bitcoin Knots for example, so it would be almost impossible to have a consensus between everyone.

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almost 3 years ago

Bitcoin Knots. This is maintained by one developer, luke-jr, and he’s on reddit.

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almost 3 years ago

And if for some reason you just can’t get bitcoin core, you can also try bitcoin knots which is basically a different implementation of bitcoin core. Here’s a description of this project.

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almost 3 years ago

Https://bitcoincore.org is the most popular, but there are others like https://bitcoinknots.org that also are Bitcoin, but with different features in the node.

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almost 3 years ago

> you need to make a consumer-friendly distribution of the node software https://bitcoinknots.org It’s a distribution of Bitcoin Core. AFAIK Bitcoin Core also has a convenient GUI interface. I set up a node on my computer. I didn’t touch the command-line once. It has a nice GUI and built-in wallet.

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over 3 years ago

Download a Bitcoin full node. It only uses 5GB of disk space and a bit of RAM. It can be run over Tor. https://bitcoinknots.org/ Custodial solutions like Coinbase can be banned. Full nodes are much harder to ban.

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over 3 years ago