Carl Dong and Modularizing the Bitcoin Consensus Engine - Episode 10
In part 2 of this sit down with Carl Dong, Murch and Jonas cover the delicate work of modularizing the Bitcoin consensus engine. In this conversation, we cover: - Carl's De-globalize ChainstateManager PR (2:25) - Async Block Processing PR - Deglobalize class of chainstate manager (g_chainman) (3:40) - AssumeUTXO - global variables and main (5:25) - scripted diff (9:35) - 0.8 upgrade consensus failure (11:25) - Jorge Timon's libconsensus project (13:10) - current libbitcoinconsensus only does script verification (13:25) - the case for multiple implementations (14:40) - ABI (15:10) Thanks as always to Matthew Zipkin for the sound engineering.