Topic: An idea for a Bitcoin Bible? (Read 484 times)
I like this. Got a great URL for it. Well a bunch of them. Get writing.
A good technical reference for Bitcoin is needed for sure. I have found what I have been looking for, but Bitcoin is such an important project that a good standard reference should be made. Good idea.
I know Satoshi's posts are technically copyrighted but wouldn't it be a good idea to create some kind of Bitcoin bible? I don't mean "bible" in the religious sense but rather as an all-in-one technical reference guide that explains everything about the whole Bitcoin protocol. That way, someone who wants to understand the inner workings of Bitcoin (e.g. a programmer) could simply consult the guide instead of downloading the source code and scouring through Satoshi's posts.
It would contain the whitepaper of course followed by the entire Bitcoin source code with snippets of Satoshi's forum postings beside it to explain how the whole thing works, why something was done in a particular way, etc.
Then it could end with a chapter where Gavin Andresen discusses the changes to the code made since Satoshi's departure from the project, bug fixes, etc. After all, according to Wikipedia he already wrote the reference manual for the VRML 2.0 specification - which is what he was working on before Bitcoin.
C++ has one. TCP/IP has one. Perhaps Bitcoin should have one too?
It would contain the whitepaper of course followed by the entire Bitcoin source code with snippets of Satoshi's forum postings beside it to explain how the whole thing works, why something was done in a particular way, etc.
Then it could end with a chapter where Gavin Andresen discusses the changes to the code made since Satoshi's departure from the project, bug fixes, etc. After all, according to Wikipedia he already wrote the reference manual for the VRML 2.0 specification - which is what he was working on before Bitcoin.
C++ has one. TCP/IP has one. Perhaps Bitcoin should have one too?
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