Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: Nice work, but please don't call it the Bitcoin protocol spec. Your document is not a spec. fair objection, fwiw. It is an attempt to describe in English the Bitcoin protocol, but anyone who implemented it based on your description would get it wrong. For example you didn't mention the SIGHASH_SINGLE bug and many other important areas like the difficulty transitions are also left unspecified. at the end of the day it's opensource so it could always be improved via pull request on github. Krzysztof, in that regard I would add a licence file to make integration of changes made by others smoother. As a loose description of the protocol for newbies it's an invaluable resource and perhaps we should link to it from the developer guide. As something that claims to be a specification it is quite possibly dangerous - the only spec that matters is the C++ original. just out of curiosity, do you think it will be possible to create any other proper protocol specifications rather than the C++ original? On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Krzysztof Okupski k.okup...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear all, thank you for your invaluable feedback. As requested, the spec will from now on be under version control. It can be found under: https://github.com/minium/Bitcoin-Spec The old link to the PDF will be, just in case, kept updated as well. Warm greetings, Krzysztof Okupski -- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck#174; Code Sight#153; - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds ___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: just out of curiosity, do you think it will be possible to create any other proper protocol specifications rather than the C++ original? Well it's a finite code base so yes, it should be possible. The only problem is so far everyone who tried it, didn't succeed :) Heck even people who tried to reimplement it by reading the code keep getting subtle details wrong. So it should definitely be possible one day, assuming Bitcoin doesn't become radically more complex, but it's a minefield. thank for the frank reply -- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
Re: [Bitcoin-development] MtGox blames bitcoin
Hi, On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Drak d...@zikula.org wrote: What is the official response from the Bitcoin Core developers about MtGox's assertion that their problems are due to a fault of bitcoin, as opposed to a fault of their own? The technical analysis preluding this mess, was that MtGox was at fault for their faulty wallet implementation. this seems a fair explanation of what happened: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x93tf/some_irc_chatter_about_what_is_going_on_at_mtgox/cf99yac -- Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
