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Hello,
I have been reading much about bitcoins, but I have yet to find a good, clear,  technical description of the entire process from end to end.  I am a system administrator and programmer, so I have a decent tech background to understand this stuff...  but I still do not understand the whole block architecture and/or model.  Can anyone reccomend a good source?

Thanks

Very nice diagram - is this free for anyone to use?

I', not charging you, and I dunno whose this is.

If there are specific parts of the system that are confusing you, feel free to ask about them here on bitcointalk.org.  There are people here who have a really good understanding of how it all works, and many of them are willing to help those who are interested in learning more.  If you are completely lost and don't even know where to start asking questions then this isn't as efficient a method of learning, and you might want to spend some time looking through these websites:

http://www.weusecoins.com/
https://en.bitcoin.it

You've read Satoshi's whitepaper (http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf), right?

nice! thanks so much!

Source:
 - http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/bitcoin-the-cryptoanarchists-answer-to-cash/0