Love this way of learning about tech. : build one yourself (the truly noble way would be to try and build without having seen the specs, just from a description

Love this way of learning about tech. : build one yourself (the truly noble way would be to try and build without having seen the specs, just from a description of what it does, but that'd take ages). However: when it comes to implementations, the real hard part of the whole Bitcoin affair is where the gnarly details hide, namely consensu, and it is missing at this point.