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As anyone who has looked at the bitcoin protocol in depth can tell, it is really a huge mess of different encodings, hashing styles, and endian conversions. Although it would be a fairly cosmetic change, are there any projects out there to attempt to rewrite bitcoin and it's protocols to be more consistent and easier to maintain for the developers? (yes, I know it would have to be it's own coin or whatever)
1I have voted to reopen this question because it's specifically asking about a different coin protocol, incompatible with Bitcoin. – Greg Hewgill – 2014-03-20T00:53:13.300
Mh, I might have misread that. It seemed to ask for a rewrite of Bitcoin, more readable and cosmetic changes only, i.e. an alternative Implementation. I read the last sentence as an assumption that it might be another Coin. Perhaps @Earlz could clarify? – Murch – 2014-03-20T07:52:59.267
1@Murch no I meant not just a new implementation, but a new protocol as well. Notice the *and it's protocols in the question. It would be something with only the ideas of bitcoin, but where the protocols and technical details would be completely incompatible – Earlz – 2014-03-20T13:51:03.677
Reopened, @GregHewgill thank you for noticing. – Murch – 2014-03-20T14:18:11.167
Isn't this the very definition of an altcoin? – Nate Eldredge – 2014-03-21T03:53:21.563
@NateEldredge no it's not. Every altcoin I know of is basically just a fork of bitcoin with some changes to the parameters. They all use the same general protocol and such – Earlz – 2014-03-21T03:54:45.013