WIP: RFC 5 : New Scalable Blockchain Protocol

This document provides specifications of a new blockchain protocol which will be used power future versions of Duniter currencies. It is however a generalist protocol and could be used by other projects outside of Duniter and with little or no modifications.

rfc/0005 Duniter Protocol Rework.md

@@ -42,15 +42,15 @@ They are stored as raw bytes arrays and should be displayed in hexadecimal forma
 
 ### 1.3. Bases
 
-Some specific data is stored or displayed using specific bases :
+Some specific data is stored or displayed using these bases :
 
-- Base58 (Display) : Mainly used for public keys, it avoids using close looking
+- Base58 (for display) : Mainly used for keys, it avoids using close looking
   characters and allow whole content selection with double-clicking.
   The alphabet is `123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz`.
-- Base64 (Display) : Data format used for non error-prone data such as signatures.
+- Base64 (for display) : Data format used for non user-friendly data such as signatures.
   The alphabet is `ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/`.
-- Name64 (Storage) : Allow to store names in a more compact way that raw ASCII/UTF-8 text.
-  Each character is stored on 6bits, and remove any invalid or non displayable characters.
+- Name64 (for storage) : Allow to store names in a more compact way that raw ASCII/UTF-8 text.
+  Each character is stored on 6bits, and remove any invalid characters.
   The alphabet is `ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_-`.
 
 ### 1.4. Bytes alignments
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ blocks and padding be used if alignement is not directly possible.
 
 ### 1.5. Block identifiers
 
-Each block is indexed bu its **block ID** stored as a *4 bytes unsigned integer*.
+Each block is indexed by its **block ID** stored as a *4 bytes unsigned integer*.
 The ***genesis block*** *ID* is `0`, and each following block have a *block ID* incremented by `1`.
 
 To refeer a *block*, we use it's **blockstamp** made of its *block ID* and its *hash*. The *blockstamp*