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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 22:51:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+c4ZoxQPwMsA7N+s0C9+snnPEoL-N_GsmfFfDHNMyahWpqyvg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP1FZjqpoOgJuNa4=_bar61=PCTeT8MqG9FGnpdKS=SCbw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Mike Hearn <mike@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

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-14 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-14  9:54 [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification 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
2014-07-14 12:37     ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-14 20:51       ` sickpig [this message]
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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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