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Bitcoin node written in C

6 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2021-11-15 · latest 2024-07-02

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  1. Sadly, I only discovered that one after I named this project: https://github.com/chjj/mako
  2. …languages. Mako looks like a super-impressive amount of work (and by a single person no less). [1] https://github.com/chjj/mako [2] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin [3] How I calculated: find <source-directory> -type f | sed 's/.*/"&"/'…
  3. …up with an unreadable mess. I certainly wish Torbjörn Granlund were here to testify to this. [1] https://github.com/chjj/mako/blob/master/src/mpi.c
  4. …the general crypto nature of the project lends to opaqueness. For example, I randomly clicked into https://github.com/chjj/mako/blob/master/src/crypto/chacha20... and one could ask where the magic numbers on lines 41-44 come from. Maybe…
  5. …then you get what the phrase says. Well thought out and cleanly written code, I'd say. [1] https://github.com/chjj/mako/blob/master/src/json.c [2] https://github.com/chjj/mako/blob/master/include/mako/json.h
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    Show HN: Mako – a full Bitcoin implementation in C
    story by chjj · 2021-11-15 · 124 comments