On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 4:13 PM, danneu <danrod...@gmail.com> wrote:

> ztellman's Gloss is magic to me.
>
> - Here's an example of my first attempt to use Gloss to parse the Bitcoin
> protocol: https://gist.github.com/danneu/7397350 -- In 2-chan.clj, it
> demonstrates using ztellman's Aleph to send Bitcoin's verack handshake to a
> node and ask it for blocks.
>

I assume we don't want to know what's in 4-chan.clj. ;)


> - Bitcoin protocol specs are described here:
> https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification
> - The hardest part of the protocol was
> https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification#Variable_length_integer,
> but Gloss makes it easy.
> - The latest version of my code is here (
> https://github.com/danneu/chaingun/blob/master/src/chaingun/codec2.clj)
> but it became coupled to my Datomic entities, so it's perhaps more
> confusing.
>
> I wasn't able to find any easy to follow real-world examples back when I
> was checking it out, so hopefully that helps someone.
>
> The amount of time Gloss has saved me is dumbfounding.
>

What's the Bitcoin code good for though? A Clojure-based miner will be
stomped into the dust by the HW-accelerated mining machines that exist
nowadays. Or is this for managing a wallet and making transactions?

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