gui VS btcd

libbitcoin isn't a company. It's an alternative C++ implementation (https://github.com/libbitcoin) to the Bitcoin Core (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin) implementation. Bitcoin Core is the one originally from Satoshi. Libbitcoin came in like 2011 or so iirc and was led by Amir Taaki. Libbitcoin is a lot less popular than Bitcoin Core, as you can see on the github stats.

The code is open-source: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/

That would make Eve online, Second Life, and other games illegal since people trade their digital assets all the time

>Comparing Bitcoin to free software seems similarly disingenuous.

Bitcoin is free software. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

Yes a government can. Bitcoin specifically is open source: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin. The ledger is public so as you pointed out there wouldn't be more details.

Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree - 66.3k stars

Different implementations(core, knots,btcd,bcoin,libbitcoin, ....) have different ways of coming to consensus. The most popular implementation called core https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin follows these guidelines https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

You can read every line of code right here on GitHub.

Also, read the source code It's on-line, for free https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

Why is the source code a single file? No real code project that I've ever seen is built on 1 file. Take a look at BTC for example, that's what a real code project looks like.

Following the instructions on their official repo, first, install go and check the version with go version, root path, and path with go env GOROOT GOPATH.

This dude caused all LND nodes to stop syncing recently with a single transaction costing less than $5 - https://twitter.com/brqgoo. Issues been patched recently. Theres others, will need to dig in order to find again.

the main one i know of btcd is written in Go and sees a lot of use from what I understand: https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd

For the Go code, I modified the code I found online to be able to generate P2PKH address, I believe. I am having a tough time navigating the plethora of functions defined here. I've also looked at the address_test.go to understand if I could get some clue, but I'm having trouble figuring out the intermediate conversions done to the Private Key hex like btcutil.NewAddressPubKeyHash(pkHash, &chaincfg.MainNetParams).

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The Peercoin Foundation is looking to hire a developer to port btcd to Peercoin. Btcd is an alternative full node bitcoin implementation written in Go (golang).

Anyone. Also, there isn't just one implementation of Bitcoin. There are several implementations of the protocol in different programming languages, but they all stick to the same rules. btcd for example is written in Go, while Haskoin is written in Haskell.