Policy on Altcoins/Altchains missinformation about rust-bitcoin

[apoelstra]

Thanks for the bug report, but this is not the place to file bugs on the altcoin treatise. You're welcome to email me or find me on IRC as andytoshi.

Also, these lines of code in peercoin shows that any block must match the latest "sync checkpoint", which must have a signature from some single developer key. You could argue that the devs don't have to sign blocks, but until they do, they can reorg them out by signing any conflict which is essentially the same thing.

[gmaxwell]

FWIW, it will also just stop accepting blocks if it goes too long without a signature from the developer AFAIR.

[hrobeers]

Also, these lines of code in peercoin shows that any block must match the latest "sync checkpoint", which must have a signature from some single developer key. You could argue that the devs don't have to sign blocks, but until they do, they can reorg them out by signing any conflict which is essentially the same thing.

This is not a protocol enforced implementation, implementations can choose to ignore it. There are multiple other ways to rewrite history like the ethereum fork has shown. Checkpoints are there to ensure smooth transitions during protocol changes and they serve the stability of the coin. Peercoin does protocol innovations unlike many other alts, and these operations need mechanisms to prevent accidental forks. Yet when abuse happens nodes are free to ignore the checkpoints.

Your statements are a very narrow minded view on the truth and are the source of much misconception about Peercoin.