Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification

2014-07-14 Thread Wladimir
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. It has already been linked from the developer guide for quite a while, under Additional Resources. Wladimir

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification

2014-07-14 Thread Mike Hearn
Ah, that's great. Still, it would be good to be careful with the word specification. On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Wladimir laa...@gmail.com wrote: 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.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification

2014-07-14 Thread sick...@gmail.com
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

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification

2014-07-14 Thread Mike Hearn
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

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification

2014-07-14 Thread Krzysztof Okupski
I've renamed it to Bitcoin Developer Specification a little while ago. Maybe it should rather be named Bitcoin Developer Reference? Either way, creating a good description of Bitcoin is an incremental process and there are certainly many quirks I'm not aware of. I hope that together we will soon

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification

2014-07-14 Thread sick...@gmail.com
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

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification

2014-07-09 Thread Krzysztof Okupski
Dear all, thank you for your words of encouragement. I'll upload the raw .tex files on github shortly. If you have any other proposals, please let me know. Especially if there are any suggestions on how the signature section can be revised. More information on network functionality can be found

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification

2014-07-09 Thread Mike Hearn
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Matt Whitlock b...@mattwhitlock.name wrote: Is anyone working on a similar specification document for Satoshi's P2P protocol? I know how blocks and transactions are structured and verified, but I'm interested in knowing how they're communicated over the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification

2014-07-08 Thread Chris D'Costa
This is probably the best, most complete resource available for those who don't want to (or don't know how to) wade through the code. Well done. On 7 July 2014 19:57, JMOlmos GMail coloniz...@gmail.com wrote: And for translation's facility :P 2014-07-07 14:57 GMT-03:00 JMOlmos GMail

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification

2014-07-08 Thread Matt Whitlock
Is anyone working on a similar specification document for Satoshi's P2P protocol? I know how blocks and transactions are structured and verified, but I'm interested in knowing how they're communicated over the network.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification

2014-07-08 Thread Jorge Timón
There's this (not sure how complete it is): https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification Also there's a good introduction to technical details here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375524.0 I hope that is useful. On 7/8/14, Matt Whitlock b...@mattwhitlock.name wrote: Is anyone

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification

2014-07-02 Thread Isidor Zeuner
Hello Krzysztof, [...] As before, it can be found under: http://enetium.com/resources/Bitcoin.pdf I hope it will prove useful to the community and thank in advance for any further improvement proposals. I think it's great work and provides a good reference for those who want to get some

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification

2014-05-18 Thread Adam Back
Suggestion: maybe you want to write and post here a paragraph summarizing the topic of your paper so people can know if they feel qualified and if they need to review it from their interests. Adam On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 03:35:33PM +0200, Krzysztof Okupski wrote: Dear all, I'd like to kindly