Correspondence topic guide · Edition 1.0.0
Transaction design
A broad technical route through transaction structure, payment behavior and protocol design in the documented public archive.
What this guide includes.
This guide combines the archive’s transactions and bitcoin-design tags. It is intentionally broad: a record can match for implementation, protocol, payment or client discussion without being a narrow transaction-format note.
Limit: The topic set is a research index, not normative documentation. Current consensus and wallet behavior must be checked against maintained technical specifications and implementations.
Coverage / 2008–2010
The shape of this source set.
Counts describe indexed records, not distinct claims or unique ideas. Cross-posts, reply threads and multi-tag records can overlap.
Records by year
- 17
- 35
- 284
Records by venue
| Venue | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| BitcoinTalk | 293 | 87.2% |
| Cryptography list | 18 | 5.4% |
| bitcoin-list | 16 | 4.8% |
| P2P Research list | 5 | 1.5% |
| P2P Foundation | 3 | 0.9% |
| White paper | 1 | 0.3% |
Matching tag counts
- transactions16448.8% of this guide
- bitcoin design24873.8% of this guide
Tag counts can sum above the 336 unique records in this guide.
Reading lenses
Three questions to carry into the sources.
These prompts organize close reading. They are not quotations or claims attributed to Satoshi.
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Design surface
Use the topic overlap counts to separate transaction-specific records from the wider protocol and client-design set.
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From payment to validation
Follow selected records across years and venues rather than extracting one sentence as a complete design rationale.
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Historical implementation
Treat release-era operational advice as evidence about its software version, not automatically about today’s network.
Deterministic reading path
Ten coordinates across the record.
The generator removes repeated normalized subjects, then selects an even chronological spread. It is a reproducible orientation set—not a ranking of importance or a random sample.
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· White paper
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
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· BitcoinTalk
Re: Blocks never stop generating?
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· BitcoinTalk
Idea for file hosting and proxy services
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· BitcoinTalk
Re: Bitcoin in Ubuntu 10.04
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· BitcoinTalk
Re: Resending transaction
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· BitcoinTalk
Re: Implementation bug prior to 0.3.6
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· BitcoinTalk
Re: Bugfixes in SVN rev 130
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· BitcoinTalk
Re: New web service: obtain dump of bitcoin block NNNN
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· BitcoinTalk
Re: Multiple Wallets, one computer
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· bitcoin-list
[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin 0.3.19 is released
Need every match? Open the searchable archive with the primary tag applied. For combined-tag coverage, use the exact selection rule recorded above.
Limited source previews
Three pointers into the full record.
Each preview is an existing archive excerpt of no more than 18 words from a separate source record. Complete wording stays at the linked archive.
· bitcoin-list
Welcome to the Bitcoin mailing list!
Read the complete record in context ↗· BitcoinTalk
Still need to know what's the most typical settings file format on Linux. Is there a standard file…
Read the complete record in context ↗· bitcoin-list
This is a minor release to add some DoS protection. Changes: - Added some DoS limits, though it's…
Read the complete record in context ↗
Exact tags, documented era, pinned bytes.
The network-free builder verifies correspondence dataset v1.0.0 by SHA-256, includes only records marked documented-project-era, and matches exact labels in each record’s topics array. The disputed 2014 account message is excluded. Topic labels were created for discovery from subjects, normalized source text and linked quotation categories; they are not human-authored abstracts.
When citing a statement, cite the linked original or archival record—not this guide’s count alone. Source rights remain with their respective holders; this page adds original organization, statistics and limited excerpts.