Technical Documentation

Here you find a list of technical documentation & stuff.

Protocols

Pool servers and miner softwares support different mining-protocols. You can find an up to date list of them here. Feel free to implement support for a protocol if CoiniumServ miss it.

Getwork

• Documentation
• Developer's reference
• Bitcointalk topic

GetBlockTemplate

• Documentation
• BIP22 - blocktemplate
• BIP23 - blocktemplate extensions

Coin

• Bitcoin Protocol Specification

Stratum

• Documentation
• Documentation [mirror]
• Is it possible for miners to know mining-address?
• Full breakdown of stratum client communication

XPT

• No official docs.
• In use by PrimeCoin/MemmoryCoin/BitShares based coins/pools.
• Reference Implementation

Merkle Trees

• Wikipedia article
• Bitcoin wiki
• Article #1
• Article #2
• Article #3
• Video - Merkle roots and merkle trees

Structures

• TX
• BlockHeader

Difficulty

• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
• Understanding nbits from stratum

Coinbase Transaction

• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transactions#Generation
• What is coinbase?
• Format of coinbase transaction
• How to decode coinbase transaction
• Format of coinbase input scripts
• Decision behind that the coinbase field can have arbitrary data

Script

• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script

Implementations

Here is some reference implementations mostly which .net & c# based grouped by categories.

Bitcoin Clients

• BitcoinSharp [mirror]
• BitSharp
• NBitcoin [Guide]
• Fcoin
• BitcoinCS
• bitcoindotnet
• BitcoinPCL

Libraries & Wrappers

• Bitcoin-Tool
• BitcoinRpcSharp
• BitcoinLib
• Bitcoin.net
• WalletClient
• Wallet.net
• BitNet
• MonoBitcoind
• xbt
• bitcoin-wrapper

Miners

• MultiMiner
• SharpMiner
• MinimalBitcoinMiner