Welcome to the opencoin documentation!

Here you will find documentation on the differnt aspects of the opencoin protocol and its implementations

• opencoin protocol
  • About this document
  • Introduction
  • The protocol
  • Notes and comments
  • Footnotes
• Use Cases
  • Payment scenarios
• Proposals
  • Payment info
  • Payment request
• FAQ
  • What is OpenCoin?
  • What is it about tokens, blinds, payloads, blanks, coins?
  • There are optional fields on some of the messages.
  • Having field xyz in the protocol would be useful. Why isn’t it there?
  • (Implementation) Why is the id in the DSDB not just the serial
  • What is the Risk of Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks?
  • Does Opencoin Provide Anonymity
  • How Are Peer-to-Peer Transfers Been Performed?
  • What are the Reasons to Encrypt Coin Containers?
  • What should be visible on the outside of encrypted containers?
  • Isn’t the usage of opencoin in desktop browser insecure?
  • How can a peer verify a coin’s validity?
  • Why then perform the signature over the coin’s meta data and not over the coin’s random serial only?
  • How to find out the validity period of a coin?
  • How is the coin serialized/normalized before it’s hash is calculated?
  • Why are big integers (e.g. hashes, keys, signatures) encoded in hex?
  • Why is a message-based API used instead of a RESTful approach?
  • What is the Average Amount of Coins Used?