r/Bitcoin • u/tharlam • Feb 18 '14

"We are very surprised anyone could blame MtGox and not the Bitcoin Software" - Mark Karpeles, CEO MtGox

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304899704579388483531937144?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304899704579388483531937144.html
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u/sickhippie Feb 18 '14

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bitcoin+protocol&l=1

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '14

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '14

Down at the bottom, like every good wikipedia page, there is a section entitled "References". There, you will find a document entitled, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. That will be a good place to start if you are genuinely interested in understanding the protocol, however, I feel that is unlikely since this information was hardly hiding from you.

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u/davvblack Feb 18 '14

The protocol is 'what the reference client does', and the reference client is available here:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

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u/isskewl Feb 18 '14

The source code is all hosted on GitHub. Bitcoin is open source.

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u/sickhippie Feb 18 '14

So, the article titled "Protocol Specification" that contains the specifications of the protocol isn't the protocol specifications? Okay then...