Mike Hearn [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-07-14 📝 Original message:Nice work, but please ...

📅 Original date posted:2014-07-14
📝 Original message: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 at 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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