BUIP121: Create formal BCH specifications
Proposer: Jonathan Silverblood
Submitted on: 2019-04-01
Status: passed
The purpose of this BUIP is to develop and maintain a public specification for the Bitcoin Cash protocol.
This BUIP proposes that we use bitcoin unlimited funds to:
- Write a formal specification for Bitcoin Cash
- Maintain a formal specification for Bitcoin Cash
Having a proper and full documentation is beneficial to all projects that needs to interact with the Bitcoin Cash network.
A maximum expenditure cap of $20,000 is proposed for the technical author work involved. Due to the uncertain scope of the work, this is an estimate recommended by solex.
Currently there is a lot of information on how Bitcoin and it's derivates operate, but it's shattered over a large number of resources and most of it is just descriptions of what the current codebases do.
While developing projects I've repeatedly found myself in need of a specification and have been referred to the concept that the code is the specification, which is unhelpful. An example of a currently poorly documented procedure is the Bitcoin Message creation and verification process.