I am a fan of Bitcoin, I believe that to maintain the robustness of the Bitcoin network, independent and distinct full-node clients are particularly important. Imagine how horrible it would be if all the nodes of Bitcoin used the same software, the same version. Can Bitcoin still talk about decentralization?I noticed that libbitcoin, a standalone full-node client for Bitcoin, now has only one node running. I have a cloud server that runs bitcoin full node all year round, running bitcoin core software, and would like to switch to "libbitcoin". My cloud server is Windows operating system. I downloaded the related software for libbitcoin, but it does not work, prompting me to initialize it first. I still can't run this client after a lot of effort, is anyone willing to help me?
Running the same software is not a problem, as long as the consensus rules that this software are decentralized. Nobody really has the power to chance those consensus rules alone.
And there are also dozens of different bitcoin nodes, not only core. There are many spv wallets, prune nodes, other full nodes implementations, etc...
Why do you want to run libbitcoin?
If you want to run a full node, you should run bitcoin core which is the most used one, unless you really need something else.
https://bitcoincore.org/en/download bitcoin is the most decentralized cryptocurrency that exists and there are thousands of full nodes running 24/7
