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Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: sharnalk on June 14, 2014, 08:01:58 AM



Title: How to get into a coin's code ?
Post by: sharnalk on June 14, 2014, 08:01:58 AM
Hellow !

Well i have a simple question, is there some kind of documentation, of how to get into the code of a coin ?
Is the only way, to read all the code and figure it out ? then should i start from bitcoin code, or an other cryptocoin?

Well if you have other ideas about getting into the code, i'll listen


Title: Re: How to get into a coin's code ?
Post by: Parazyd on June 14, 2014, 08:04:07 AM
You can Bitcoin's code here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
Read through and look how it works.


Title: Re: How to get into a coin's code ?
Post by: BitCoinDream on June 14, 2014, 08:58:57 AM
Hellow !

Well i have a simple question, is there some kind of documentation, of how to get into the code of a coin ?
Is the only way, to read all the code and figure it out ? then should i start from bitcoin code, or an other cryptocoin?

Well if you have other ideas about getting into the code, i'll listen


before u get into the code, i'd suggest u to have a look at the whitepaper first. For Bitcoin it is at www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf


Title: Re: How to get into a coin's code ?
Post by: bitsmichel on June 14, 2014, 11:50:30 AM
Hellow !

Well i have a simple question, is there some kind of documentation, of how to get into the code of a coin ?
Is the only way, to read all the code and figure it out ? then should i start from bitcoin code, or an other cryptocoin?

Well if you have other ideas about getting into the code, i'll listen


Coins have a source code link on their official website. You can dowload the whole code, or you can simply download a wallet.  The easiest, I think, would be a python based coin  :)


Title: Re: How to get into a coin's code ?
Post by: sharnalk on June 14, 2014, 12:07:33 PM
I don"t think there is a python based coin.
It seems that almost every coin code are based on bitcoin (or fork from bitcoin), and imo, the bitcoin code is pretty dirty :D and hard to read


Title: Re: How to get into a coin's code ?
Post by: bitsmichel on June 14, 2014, 12:11:24 PM
I don"t think there is a python based coin.
It seems that almost every coin code are based on bitcoin (or fork from bitcoin), and imo, the bitcoin code is pretty dirty :D and hard to read

You are right, there doesn't seem to be a Python code. Most of the stuff is C/C++


Title: Re: How to get into a coin's code ?
Post by: Parazyd on June 14, 2014, 12:14:03 PM
I don"t think there is a python based coin.
It seems that almost every coin code are based on bitcoin (or fork from bitcoin), and imo, the bitcoin code is pretty dirty :D and hard to read

You are right, there doesn't seem to be a Python code. Most of the stuff is C/C++


Darkcoin is Java I believe.


Title: Re: How to get into a coin's code ?
Post by: sharnalk on June 14, 2014, 12:34:08 PM
Semms to be C++ too :s