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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock.name>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 13:57:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP1uuPReuOR=0PS5bff43umk-PP9OgYd-MTycFLsqnTp9g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2098096.PBWFJaSQzq@crushinator>

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On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock.name>
wrote:

> Is anyone working on a similar specification document for Satoshi's P2P
> protocol?  I know how blocks and transactions are structured and verified,
> but I'm interested in knowing how they're communicated over the network.


There's a high level guide here:

https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide#p2p-network

It's not a protocol specification however, more a lay-of-the-land type
description. The protocol is not very complicated however. The wiki page
describes it adequately. It's basically just a framing mechanism with
excessively aggressive checksumming, a version handshake, an inventory
mechanism to cut down on bandwidth usage, the alerts, and that's about it.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-09 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-26 11:30 [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Protocol Specification 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 [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-07-14 14:44 Krzysztof Okupski
2014-07-14 17:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-07-14  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
2014-07-14 12:37     ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-14 20:51       ` sickpig
2014-07-09  9:34 Krzysztof Okupski
2014-05-18 13:35 Krzysztof Okupski
2014-05-18 14:38 ` Adam Back

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