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Is there anything in the specification that's you think is ambiguous or hard to understand? There's also the source code to bitcoinj, which is a very well-comm
by weavejester 15y ago
Is there anything in the specification that's you think is ambiguous or hard to understand?
There's also the source code to bitcoinj, which is a very well-commented implementation of the protocol.
- cheez 15y agoOk, my question was really as to how they even discover each other but some more perusing of that site shows that they connect to a IRC channel. I thought there was no centralized point-of-failure?
- weavejester 15y agoThe IRC channel just provides an initial set of peers. There's a hard-coded list of peers it falls back on if the IRC channel fails. I believe there's been some discussion about diversifying the initial peer discovery further.