Nice work, but please don't call it the "Bitcoin protocol spec". Your document is not a spec. 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.

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.


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

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