Cash developer has left the organization. He joined the company during the contentious days of 2017 because the Core fork was entertaining alternative implementations of , such as those with blocks larger than one megabyte.
Unlimited was founded initially along the same lines as Gavin Andresen’s failed project, which sought to increase the block size through a standard hard fork.
Development Process Has “Serious Problems”
Unlimited versions of both Core and Cash. However, its Core implementation has not been updated since 2017, indicating they’re never going to try and fork Core again. It has never been a dominant mode on , but it is one of the more critical projects in the Cash space.
Contributing to Unlimited was Amaury Sechet’s first public foray into development. He with “serious problems” for the failure of Cash to gain the majority of nodes early on. Sechet writes that four critical vulnerabilities, one of which allowed Cash nodes to be , contributed significantly to the hard fork’s failure:
I decided to provide support on that front… I was met with resistance by opening a new pull request for a feature instead of addressing the feedback provided. Failure to address these problems led to a failure to activate large blocks properly on testnet and a series of four vulnerabilities to bring nodes down remotely, which ruined any chances for a majority big block fork.
Here, he refers to one of the vulnerabilities mentioned, which could have been solved if the original pull request had been debugged. Instead, a new pull request was created and the bug went live.
Mengerian Left, Now Deadalnix. Who’s Next?
In response, Sechet , which has backing from Bitmain. He maintained his membership at Unlimited, hoping things would turn around:
Eventually, Unlimited would improve, and who knows? Maybe even ABC would become unnecessary.
Last week, another prominent Unlimited developer left the project: Antony ‘Mengerian’ Zegers. Zegers says that he is quitting Unlimited as a brought against several Cash developers, including Sechet.
Unlimited currently plays host to numerous SV proponents. Zegers and Sechet feel that Unlimited should back away from SV. They also think the SV community should condemn these lawsuits. Zegers :
The event that really decided my opinion is the lawsuit against several people in the Cash community, including developers Amaury Séchet, Jason Cox, and Shammah Chancellor. These are my friends and colleagues, and using a frivolous lawsuit to target them with the force of law is despicable.
Sechet: bitcoin Unlimited Should Condemn bitcoin SV
Both Zegers and Sechet would have stayed on with Unlimited if they felt things were getting better. They’d like to see the group work towards eradicating SV support, as now two prominent anti-SV developers have left the project.
Before long, there is a likelihood that Unlimited will go full SV.
Near the end of his explanatory article, Sechet says:
It is important that the Cash community protect itself from people and groups attempting to take advantage of its cooperative nature and undermine the project. This means employing the principle of reciprocity, and detaching from those who are not willing to cooperatively reciprocate.
Sechet will continue to work on Cash as ABC lead developer. He is consistent in one area: he believes Craig Wright is a charlatan and that SV is a fraudulent chain.
Published at Mon, 25 Mar 2019 21:11:06 +0000
