What are interesting parts of the Bitcoin Core codebase?

[rodarmor]

@1440000bytes

P2P is the most interesting part of bitcoin core

What’s your favorite file or function?

@jb55

I like the EvalScript code in script/interpreter.cpp, it’s a simple stack based language that you can build your own interpreter for to learn how it works. Fun exercise!

Nice, great suggestion!

@recent798

Mempool design is an interesting theoretical problem. For instance, Mempool Incentive Compatibility

That’s a great discussion! I’ll definitely link him there. Anything in the existing codebase, like a file or function, which is particularly interesting?