> the "import rlp" cheat. Ah, I knew someone was going to get me on that. They actually give you the encode function in the specification. It's pretty straigh

> the "import rlp" cheat. Ah, I knew someone was going to get me on that. They actually give you the encode function in the specification. It's pretty straightforward and if I was to write it, would end up the same, so I decided to just import the library. But I agree it does go against the "from scratch" title a little bit. > there were a lot of blind spots in the official documentation Totally agree. > How far have you been able to get to? I'm actually trying to get the mainnet nodes to talk to me as well.