From: "sickpig@gmail•com" <sickpig@gmail•com>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>,
Krzysztof Okupski <k.okupski@googlemail•com>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:25:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+c4Zoy-O_MkRZDVjHysDMhZnx8mo7XAAw7iJQYHrm9f4OsEUQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP21sc9smev5tg07HnLpw-8WWS7EvzzTyEvD6qYEfHvpoA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Mike Hearn <mike@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.okupski@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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-14 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-14 9:54 Krzysztof Okupski
2014-07-14 10:41 ` sickpig
2014-07-14 11:26 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-14 11:41 ` Wladimir
2014-07-14 11:49 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-14 12:25 ` sickpig [this message]
2014-07-14 12:37 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-14 20:51 ` sickpig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-07-14 14:44 Krzysztof Okupski
2014-07-14 17:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-09 9:34 Krzysztof Okupski
2014-06-26 11:30 Krzysztof Okupski
2014-07-03 1:21 ` Isidor Zeuner
[not found] ` <CANVdSAqEyqavSHea3uhzVWGKQU0UHGZDVqEiF3Ox2XkhwM=zpA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-07-07 17:57 ` JMOlmos GMail
2014-07-08 15:29 ` Chris D'Costa
2014-07-08 20:04 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-07-08 21:08 ` Aaron Voisine
2014-07-08 22:40 ` Jorge Timón
2014-07-09 11:57 ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-18 13:35 Krzysztof Okupski
2014-05-18 14:38 ` Adam Back
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