Which serialization format the transactions use?

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I'm not very familiar with low-level structures, so I would like to know if bitcoin protocol follows a standard on how a bitcoin transaction data is serialized and sent over TCP.

Does it use any of these serialization format? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_data_serialization_formats

John Smith

Posted 2018-09-15T21:21:30.367

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Answers

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All of the data structures in Bitcoin use a custom Bitcoin specific serialization format. The standard that is followed is the Bitcoin defined standard, not any other standard. A description of the non-segwit format can be found here. For segwit transactions, the format is described in BIP 144.

Andrew Chow

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