Quote from: UdjinM6 on November 24, 2015, 06:57:42 PM

@all "whitepaper first" people:

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> Sorry about all the questions, but as I said this does seem to be a
> very promising and original idea, and I am looking forward to seeing
> how the concept is further developed. It would be helpful to see a more
> process oriented description of the idea, with concrete details of the
> data structures for the various objects (coins, blocks, transactions),
> the data which is included in messages, and algorithmic descriptions
> of the procedures for handling the various events which would occur in
> this system. You mentioned that you are working on an implementation,
> but I think a more formal, text description of the system would be a
> helpful next step.

I appreciate your questions. I actually did this kind of backwards. I had to
write all the code before I could convince myself that I could solve every
problem, then I wrote the paper. I think I will be able to release the code
sooner than I could write a detailed spec. You're already right about most of
your assumptions where you filled in the blanks.

Satoshi Nakamoto

http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography%40metzdowd.com/msg09980.html

PS. Btw, I'm not saying that that's the one and only right way to do things. But sometimes it works quite well as you might already know Wink

Great point

Kinda related. For those who don't want to dig too much into forums, this collection of Satoshi's writings is great (it includes the one supra):
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Satoshi-Collected-Writings-Nakamoto-ebook/dp/B00M6KGJ2K/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1448391585&sr=8-1