• Bitcoin: 1NfGejohzoVGffAD1CnCRgo9vApjCU2viY
• Litecoin: LiUGs9sqH6GBHsvzpNtLCoyXB5aCDi9HsQ
• Dogecoin: DTy5q7uUQ1whqyUrwC1LbhgqwKgovJT5R7
• Protoshares (BitShares-PTS): PZxpdC8RqWsdU3pVJeobZY7JFKVPfNpy5z
• BTSX: drltc

This is a specification of the BitShares toolkit blockchain. This is a work-in-progress. The principal author is drltc. Development can be followed in this forum thread: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=1738.0

To make sure I fully understand the blockchain format, I'm adding chain.py which can talk to the built-in chain server which allows a binary download of the blockchain.

This was tested with the following test network version:

{
"bitshares_toolkit_revision": "e6744e252c4f89c8d2156800edf55c483d6e8614",
"bitshares_toolkit_revision_age": "79 hours ago",
"fc_revision": "a0b3a9a92d28ec0b3a08b45b8c1449737f56dd34",
"fc_revision_age": "6 days ago",
"compile_date": "compiled on Sep  9 2014 at 01:22:59"
"blockchain_description": "BitShares X Test Network",
"test_network_version": "23"
}

It has not been tested on live network data yet.

Files

• README.md is this cruft
• chain.py parses the blockchain from a chainserver (currently must be running on localhost:11235)
• notes.md is my (drltc's) raw notes from looking at the code
• questions.md is questions for more knowledgeable developers
• block.md is the actual documentation
• dump2bin.py converts the server side of a socat dump to binary
• nctest.sh respawns nc in a while loop. It makes the server side of the conversation reproducible and suppresses the client side entirely.