Well to know well your transaction specification, I know such services are really useful. Use it sometimes. I used https://bitcoin.org
Give it a try
Topic: Why did not transactions precede a length specification? (Read 179 times)
Ok, I could have come up with that myself.
Many thanks
Many thanks
Transactions are self descriptive in length. Any field that is variable length contains its length, All other fields are fixed length and a parser knows this. So transactions don't need length prefixes because a parse will know when a transaction ends, and the next bytes are the beginning of the next transaction.
Raw transactions in the blocks do not have any preceding lengths in the first bytes. Why?
How are the transactions within a block best parsed without the length specification within the transaction?
How are the transactions within a block best parsed without the length specification within the transaction?
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