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® 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
