Topic: Link to download uncompiled version of bitcore? (Read 1170 times)

Hey Theymos thanks for jumping in

We got the source from the link someone provided github/.../downloads

A bit surprised it wasn't on bitcoin.org but now we understand how oss has moved the past few years into github

The original problem on github was the first big link loads a download exe a no on on our network

we don't download exe's for obvious reasons

now we have a few questions about files in the zip

Truly appreciate you trying to help

a. why is the zip of the core bundled with so many image and video files?

(since .jpg bootstrap we treat all images/videos as potential weakness in security)

b. has there been any high level analysis outside of the small group doing core development as to a few things such as
1. robust quality of c++ to handle a potential 800M trans a day, since we see the potential growth of btc to be equal to at least credit cards and they do 800M trans a day now via a network of mainframes running low level code using assembly
2. independant geek analysis of all the scripts for possible triggers to hack
3. a serious hardening discussion we can review for the known weaknesses such as 51% trusted nodes issues and potential high speed verificaiton nodes

c. I understand the 'project' was started via 'satoshi' and is supposed to be 'anonymous' decentralized public ledger etc, but now that major money is considering btc may be the legit future digital currency, major core developers won't be able to remain in shadows and be anonymous, we understand Gavin has revealed his major position in overall control of core development, but if big money corps are really gonna utilize btc network to handle mega billions daily in trans, they won't until core development is more transparent and public and perhaps involved with outside think tanks making legitimate hardening issues for core team to implement

Great idea btc overall, but core looks open to possible viruses, not that there are, but it just takes one bad apple in the core dev group to make this a vicious script in our opinion

WE LOVE BTC as to the ideals, but have legitimate issues with how centralized core dev is

Thanks for your thoughts my brother in vision

The source is also included in the .zip/.tar.gz downloads.

OP: FYI there's a different open source project called bitcore (Javascript), which is different from Bitcoin Core

IMHO OP has never been on github before thats all.

The link labeled "get the source code" does link directly to the ... source code.

Like I said the big blue button downloads is an .exe file that's not a source code

The other link was what I needed

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases

Thanks

You didn't notice on the webpage the big, blue, bold link "Get the source code"?

Yes, either download one of the tagged releases (the most recent) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases

or clone the repository with
Git is a version control system like SVN or CVS. Github is a hosted version of git which provides open access to all code. You can browse it online at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

Ok

https://bitcoin.org/en/download

I clicked download it sends an executable

No good

Then I click on source and I'm on github in what looks like a usenet/forum discussion of the core

Is there a simple link on bitcoin.org that downloads just the core program to look at and not an executable nor the public ledger

It's open source so the core should be in an uncompiled version somewhere right?

THANKS