The BitShares whitepapers are split into a set of distinct papers each addressing a (more or less) self-contained unit of BitShares.
The recommended reading order for newcomers:
- bitshares-general.tex The general concept of BitShares. #wallet #network #bts #accounts
- bitshares-financial-platform.tex Description of BitShares for financial contracts. #mpa #uia #dex
- bitshares-structure.tex BitShares as a business (DAC). #income #cost #profit #feeschedule
- bitshares-growth.tex Incentives to grow the BitShares ecosystem are described and scalability is address. #referral #approval #lmax
- bitshares-consensus.tex Addresses the consensus mechanism of the BitShares blockchain. #dpos #tapos #forks
- bitshares-history.tex The history of BitShares #pts #ags #bts0.9 #sharedrops
- bitshares-license.tex The licensing model and the interconnection to Cryptonomex
The whitepapers are written using LaTeX and can be compiled directly into pdf
with
pdflatex paper.tex
To compile all of them you may simply use make.
The LaTeX-git watermark requires the following post-commit, post-merge, and
post-checkout hook to be placed in the .git/hooks directory:
#!/bin/sh
# Copyright 2014 Brent Longborough
# Part of gitinfo2 package Version 2
# Please read gitinfo2.pdf for licencing and other details
# -----------------------------------------------------
# Post-{commit,checkout,merge} hook for the gitinfo2 package
#
# Get the first tag found in the history from the current HEAD
FIRSTTAG=$(git describe --tags --always --dirty='-*' 2>/dev/null)
# Get the first tag in history that looks like a Release
RELTAG=$(git describe --tags --long --always --dirty='-*' 2>/dev/null)
# Hoover up the metadata
git --no-pager log -1 --date=short --decorate=short \
--pretty=format:"\usepackage[%
shash={%h},
lhash={%H},
authname={%an},
authemail={%ae},
authsdate={%ad},
authidate={%ai},
authudate={%at},
commname={%an},
commemail={%ae},
commsdate={%ad},
commidate={%ai},
commudate={%at},
refnames={%d},
firsttagdescribe={$FIRSTTAG},
reltag={$RELTAG}
]{gitexinfo}" HEAD > .git/gitHeadInfo.gin