Title: The first rule of Bitcoin is... Post by: Hal on March 16, 2011, 11:17:33 PM Follow the rules!
I've put up a wiki page listing the rules used by the client to process transactions and blocks. It's a bit linear and could benefit from some refactoring, but I didn't want to go too far in terms of pseudocode, because IMO it obscures the logic. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_rules (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_rules) Title: Re: The first rule of Bitcoin is... Post by: jgarzik on March 17, 2011, 12:39:09 AM Good stuff. Glad this is written down somewhere outside the source code.
Title: Re: The first rule of Bitcoin is... Post by: Jim Hyslop on March 17, 2011, 01:03:52 AM Nice work, thanks.
I've added some explanations for some of the more obscure rules, and removed a redundant step. Title: Re: The first rule of Bitcoin is... Post by: Gavin Andresen on March 17, 2011, 01:31:58 AM Very nice!
The 'sig opcount <= 2' rule for tx relaying is slated to change with the 'sendmany' patch I pulled on Monday. The new rule will be 'sig opcount <= size/34 Code: // Checking ECDSA signatures is a CPU bottleneck, so to avoid denial-of-service Title: Re: The first rule of Bitcoin is... Post by: JollyGreen on March 17, 2011, 05:07:05 AM Follow the rules! I've put up a wiki page listing the rules used by the client to process transactions and blocks. It's a bit linear and could benefit from some refactoring, but I didn't want to go too far in terms of pseudocode, because IMO it obscures the logic. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_rules (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_rules) This is a great idea, I think we should do this for a lot of the bitcoin code, it took a while to wrap my head around a lot of the algorithms in the bitcoin source. Title: Re: The first rule of Bitcoin is... Post by: mitchy on March 19, 2011, 08:09:26 PM I was very curious and searched for a day to try and learn exactly step by step what the formula was for Generating a Block. A plaintext spec would have helped . I've nearly reached my quota of reading math i barely comprehend :)
Thx for the post and yes I agree to clarifying a lot of the bitcoin code. I searched a few times for an RFC but only found the first whitepaper and misc source. Title: Re: The first rule of Bitcoin is... Post by: Mike Hearn on March 21, 2011, 09:54:20 AM Thanks Hal, this will be very useful.
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