A few weeks ago the first version of the Knuth node (a.k.a. Bitprim node) was released.
Knuth's philosophy is to be the most efficient node and the one with the best APIs in the market, to build applications on top of it.
Our goal this year is to make Knuth a reliable node for mining, so we are working to implement the Bitcoin Cash Node and Bitcoin Unlimited test suites.
We always believe that Bitcoin Cash should be mined using multiple implementations, we need mining diversity. We have just seen what has happened in our community this last time for the mere fact of having only one implementation dominating the mining.
We are looking for funding, in order to fulfill our roadmap in the best and fastest way possible. In the following link you can find our BCH address where we receive donations: https://github.com/k-nuth/kth#donation
Some people have asked me: "Why the name Knuth?", "Why the logo?"
The name of the node is in honor of computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth. His innumerable contributions make him one of the most important computer scientists in history, he is perhaps the greatest.
Q: Why the logo? Considering that a crypto node is an advanced technology project, don't you think it's very outdated?
A: Well, the logo has its explanation. It is true that a Bitcoin Cash node can be considered as cutting-edge technology and Knuth logo gives the feeling of handwriting, which may seem like a contradiction.
But this supposed contradiction can also be found in Donald Knuth. He is the author of the most important multi-volume book on algorithms and programming: The Art of Computer Programming, discoverer of important algorithms, creator of the TeX typesetting system and the MMIX instruction set, among others. So Donald Knuth can be considered an advanced person, but as a counterpoint to this, we know that he stopped using email to communicate and he now writes handwritten letters sent by the traditional postal mail.
It is for this reason that I decided to use a typeface that resembles handwriting.
In addition, kth is a form of abbreviation of Knuth and is also used in mathematics to express the term kth of a sequence.
I say goodbye paraphrasing Pierre-Simon Laplace with his "Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all":
Read Knuth, read Knuth, he is the master of us all.
Bye!
