Refrences to gather "under the hood" information

DannyHamilton

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Quote from: TheDespite on June 19, 2013, 09:31:06 PM

Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on June 19, 2013, 09:26:22 PM

For better or worse if you are unwilling to look at other's source you are going to go nowhere.

You'd think someone would've whipped up something by now... bitcoin being such a large scale business and all.

This is the exact reason there isn't a lot of well written "academical" papers on bitcoin's technical details. It is large scale, making such documentation complex and time consuming to create, but there aren't many people willing to pay for someone to put in that effort. There are plenty of people who are capable of just looking at the source, so rather than paying one person to write documents, and another to write a program based on those documents, most businesses find it to be cheaper to just hire people who can read source to also write the source.

If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask them here, you're likely to get good answers. Perhaps you'll be the first to actually create some well written and highly useful documentation.

TheDespite

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Quote from: btceic on June 19, 2013, 09:32:53 PM

You might want to start with Satoshi's whitepaper.

http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
I'll save the trouble for anyone finding this thread at a later date.

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The whitepaper is pretty high level and only contains basic information about bitcoin =(

btceic

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You might want to start with Satoshi's whitepaper.

TheDespite

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Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on June 19, 2013, 09:26:22 PM

For better or worse if you are unwilling to look at other's source you are going to go nowhere.

You'd think someone would've whipped up something by now... bitcoin being such a large scale business and all.

DeathAndTaxes

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Gerald Davis

No.

For better or worse if you are unwilling to look at other's source you are going to go nowhere.

TheDespite

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Hey. I registered to ask if there exists a documentation of bitcoin.
I'm looking for the information required to code a pool and a miner client. 100% academical.

I don't care much for the idea of reading others' source.

Thanks!

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