* Replaced text justification with left-align (raggedright) for all text
in dev docs.
* Removed previous manual left-align in RPC byte order table
* Changed placement of See Below text partly based on a suggestion by
@saivann (thanks!)
* Normalized capitialization of special structures (e.g. s/TxIn/txIn/)
to be consistent with some other parts of the docs. (I don't think
we're fully consistent on this in all parts of the docs. I'll put a
rule in the style guide today and then we can make changes on the next
global proofread.)
* Fixed missing period found by @saivann (thanks!) and a related missing
preposition.
Provides a detailed description of the transaction format, replacing an
example hexdump taken from the wiki.
I'm putting this in the transaction section as the format is necessary
for the creation of txids, which are used as merkle leaves (so are
covered by consensus rules). However, this is also the format used by
several P2P network messages to transmit transactions, so I'll be
linking back to it from there as I document those messages.
As reported by @gsalgado (thanks!), the docs incorrectly state that all
sigs are compared against all pubkeys. This commit provides a corrected
description, additional details, and references in other parts of the
text where we mention multisig. (Fixes#622)
* Revise P2P Networking section to provide a more detailed description
of initial peer discovery and DNS seeds.
* Tweak autocrossref.rb to allow term blacklisting. Use this new feature
to prevent cross referencing "address" in "IP address" to the
definition of Bitcoin P2PKH/P2SH addresses. This avoids a bunch of
manual "norefs".
* Sorted the _includes/references.md file as it became unclear where
links should be added.
* Fixed accidentally lowercased "merkle" at start of sentence.
Based on a suggestion made by @petertodd to the -devel mailing list and
the discussion in that thread by him and other participants.
* We've been using the term "consensus", but this commit introduces a
formal definition for it and "consensus rules" as part of the block
chain introduction.
* Describe that consensus rules may change and may happen when they
do: hard or soft forks.
* Describe how full nodes can detect hard or soft forks, then describe
how SPV clients can detect hard and soft forks using the more limited
information available to them.
* Add a short subsection about the different byte orders used with
hashes in Bitcoin Core and other software.
* Re-word some text in other sections to mention the byte order
differences
This commit created based on comments from @SergioDemianLerner (thanks!)
* Adds the #bitcoin-dev IRC channel, Bitcoin StackExchange, and
BitcoinTalk Dev & Tech board to the development page.
* Links to that section of the page from the devel docs.
* Replace previous TX Overview image with a simplified illustration.
The previous overview image was commented out in pull #566 / commit
6afc683. New image incorporates suggestions by @saivann (thanks!)
* Add new illustration showing the specifics of outputs and inputs (and
how they're related). This replaces most of the detail lost by using a
simplified overview image
* Add two short paragraphs briefly describing the ouput and input
features, leading into the existing detailed P2PKH description
Bitcoin limits are usually defined using decimal-friendly numbers of bytes. The block size is limited to 1 MB, not 1 MiB, for example. Also, the latest block size limit is 750 KB, not 350 KB.
This modifies commits provided by @petertodd to use the terms "pubkey
script" and "signature script" instead of other terms.
* Rename "scriptPubKey" and "output script" to "pubkey script"
(suggested by @luke-jr). We leave a token "scriptPubKey" at the point
where we define pubkey script so that searchers can find it.
* Rename "scriptSig" to "signature script" (suggested by @luke-jr). We
also leave a token "scriptSig" at this definition point.
* Rename "redeemScript" to "redeem script"
* Defined ECDSA on secp256k1 curve as the crypto used in the Transaction
section and added references to secp256k1 private/public keys and
signatures.
* Removed "The Parts Of A Transaction" illustration by commenting it out
in the HTML. Shoehorning the pubkey/signature script terms into this
image was becoming difficult, and I'm not very fond of that
illustration anyway. I'll see if I can think of a nicer replacement
illustration for some point in the future.
* Add a short paraphrased version @petertodd's description of scripts as
generalized crypto.
* Updated all the illustrations which referred to either pubkey scripts
or signature scripts to use these terms.
* Small grammar fixes.
* Lower case #term-scriptPubKey as all our other anchor links are
lower case
* Replace script/scripts with scriptPubKey/scriptPubKeys in
_autocrossref.yaml. (Fixes `make test` errors from broken
auto-crossref links.)
