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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 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



  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 [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 [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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