Questions Regarding How Far of a Clone is this

[VoR0220]

Hi there,

I'm a student who is interested in your project. It seems relatively easy to understand and seems to have all the pieces for an independent blockchain cryptocurrency. Is this specifically linked to the BTC protocol or is this its own standalone protocol? Thanks in advance for the advice.

VoR0220

[xran-deex]

This code was created for a Cryptography course I took. I tried as much as possible to recreate the BitCoin protocol directly from the BitCoin paper as posted at https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf. I based the code off of the paper, NOT any existing code. I believe it is a little bit broken, at least when I presented it, there we're some issues with the clients not communicating with themselves.

[VoR0220]

Hmmmm....interesting. Why do you think that is? I'd like to help. Yours is a pretty understandable piece of code. Very well done. I'd like to help you fix them. Are you saying that it is purely the problem in the P2P network?

[xran-deex]

Feel free to fix the issues. You should fire up the server and a few clients to see if you can reproduce the problem. The way the transactions are serialized probably needs to be redone. Again, feel free to work on anything. I guess the process would be to fork this repo and submit a pull request when you've made changes.