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And as far as I know this is really the only alternate implementation that hasn't been completely abandoned, because it is too much of a pain in the ass to maintain an alternative. You are better of using and contributing your energy to core if you want it to function differently. Source: over 1 year ago
I personally run Bitcoin knots on Windows: https://github.com/bitcoinknots or https://bitcoinknots.org/. Source: over 1 year ago
There are also other implementations, like Bitcoin Knots for example, so it would be almost impossible to have a consensus between everyone. Source: over 2 years ago
Bitcoin Knots. This is maintained by one developer, luke-jr, and he's on reddit. Source: over 2 years ago
And if for some reason you just can't get bitcoin core, you can also try bitcoin knots which is basically a different implementation of bitcoin core. Here's a description of this project. Source: over 2 years ago
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