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BIP 0014 - Protocol Version and User Agent
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Table 1: Data sheet for Protocol Version and User Agent
| Title | Protocol Version and User Agent |
| Layer | Peer Services |
| Author | Amir Taaki, Patrick Strateman |
| Comments-Summary | No comments yet. |
| Comments-URI | https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0014 |
| Status | Final |
| Type | Standards Track |
| Created | 2011-11-10 |
| Post History | 2011-11-02 |
| Description | https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0014.mediawiki |
- Note: The following is an excerpt from the official Bitcoin site. It is provided here as a convenience and is not authoritative. Refer to the original document(s) as the authoritative reference.
Proposal
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The version field in
versionandgetblockspackets will become the protocol version number. The version number in the “blocks” reflects the protocol version from when that block was created.
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The currently unused
sub_version_num fieldinversionpackets will become the new user-agent string.
- Bitcoin user agents are a modified browser user agent with more structure to aid parsers and provide some coherence. In bitcoin, the software usually works like a stack starting from the core code-base up to the end graphical interface. Therefore the user agent strings codify this relationship.
- Basic format:
/Name:Version/Name:Version/.../
- Example:
/Satoshi:5.64/bitcoin-qt:0.4/
/Satoshi:5.12/Spesmilo:0.8/
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