# Gavin Andresen
# 2012-09-08 17:20:44
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120753.msg1170970#msg1170970

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When I hear that, I hear "you should stop doing what you're doing for a year or two or three and re-implement the whole thing." @p{par}

Yeah... no.  As much as that would be a fun project, I don't think that is the job of the team working on the existing reference implementation. Keeping the existing software and network running as smoothly as possible is the highest priority. @p{par}

Another very high priority is working through issues that arise as alternative implementations happen (see the current thread in the development section about non-DER-encoded signatures for a good example).  An alternative implementation that has the kind of accounting that you want is a great idea@p{--} go do it, fund it, or convince somebody else to do it.  I think genjix' libbitcoin has the "store the blockchain in a database" that you want (although last I heard he was running into performance issues with that approach). @p{brk}