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.gitignore

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ coverage
 node_modules
 browser/bitcore.js
 browser/tests.js
+docs/api
 
 lib/errors/index.js
 

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 Contributing to Bitcore
 =======
 
-We're working hard to make *bitcore* the easiest and most powerful javascript library for working with bitcoin. Our goal is to have *bitcore* be a library that can be used by anyone interested in bitcoin, and level the expertise differences with agreat design and documentation.
+We're working hard to make *bitcore* the most powerful JavaScript library for working with bitcoin. Our goal is to have *bitcore* be a library that can be used by anyone interested in bitcoin, and to level expertise differences with great design and documentation.
 
-## Quick checklist
+## Quick Checklist
 
 Make sure:
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Consistency on the way classes are used is paramount to allow an easier understa
 
 ## Style Guidelines
 
-The design guidelines have quite a high abstraction level. These style guidelines are more concreate and easier to apply, and also more opinionated. The design guidelines mentioned above are the way we think about general software development and we believe they should be present in any software project.
+The design guidelines have quite a high abstraction level. These style guidelines are more concrete and easier to apply, and also more opinionated. The design guidelines mentioned above are the way we think about general software development and we believe they should be present in any software project.
 
 ### G0 - General: Default to Felixge's Style Guide
 

README.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Bitcore
 [![Build Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/bitpay/bitcore.svg?branch=master&style=flat-square)](https://travis-ci.org/bitpay/bitcore)
 [![Coverage Status](https://img.shields.io/coveralls/bitpay/bitcore.svg?style=flat-square)](https://coveralls.io/r/bitpay/bitcore)
 
-A pure and simple javascript bitcoin API.
+A pure and simple JavaScript bitcoin API.
 
 ## Principles
 
@@ -13,13 +13,11 @@ Bitcoin is a powerful new peer-to-peer platform for the next generation of finan
 
 ## Get Started
 
-You can run bitcore on any javascript engine. It's distributed through npm, and you can also find compiled single files here: [bitcore.js](https://bitcore.io/bitcore/dist/bitcore.js) and [bitcore.min.js](https://bitcore.io/bitcore/dist/bitcore.min.js).
-
 ```
 npm install bitcore
 ```
 
-Using it on node.js:
+Using it in Node.js:
 
 ```javascript
 var bitcore = require('bitcore');
@@ -46,7 +44,7 @@ Bitcore is still under heavy development and not quite ready for "drop-in" produ
 
 Please send pull requests for bug fixes, code optimization, and ideas for improvement.
 
-## Building the browser bundle
+## Building the Browser Bundle
 
 To build bitcore full bundle for the browser:
 

docs/guide/examples.md → docs/api/index.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Examples
 
-## Create a private key
+## Create a Private Key
 
 ```
 var privKey = new bitcore.PrivateKey();
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ var paymentInfo = {
 var uri = new bitcore.URI(paymentInfo).toString();
 ```
 
-## Create a transaction
+## Create a Transaction
 ```
 var transaction = new Transaction()
     .from(utxos)          // Feed information about what unspend outputs one can use
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ var transaction = new Transaction()
     .sign(privkeySet)     // Signs all the inputs it can
 ```
 
-## Connect to the network
+## Connect to the Network
 ```
 var peer = new Peer('5.9.85.34');
 

docs/guide/address.md

@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
-# > `bitcore.Address`
+# Address
 
 ## Description
 
-Represents a bitcoin Address. Addresses became the most popular way to make bitcoin transactions. See [the official Bitcoin Wiki](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address) for more information.
+Represents a bitcoin Address. Addresses are the most popular way to make bitcoin transactions. See [the official Bitcoin Wiki](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address) for technical background information.
 
 ## Instantiate an Address
 
-To be able to receive bitcoins an address is needed, but in order to spend them a private key is necessary. Take a look at the [`PrivateKey`](PrivateKey.md) docs for more information about exporting and saving a key.  
+To be able to receive bitcoins an address is needed, but in order to spend them a private key is necessary. Please take a look at the [`PrivateKey`](PrivateKey.md) docs for more information about exporting and saving a key.  
 
 ```javascript
 var privateKey = new PrivateKey();
 var address = privateKey.toAddress();
 ```
 
-You can also instantiate an address from a String, [PublicKey](PublicKey.md), or [HDPublicKey](Hierarchical.md), in case you are not the owner of the private key.
+You can also instantiate an Address from a String, [PublicKey](PublicKey.md), or [HDPublicKey](Hierarchical.md), in case you are not the owner of the private key.
 
 ```javascript
 // from a string
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ var address = new Address(publicKey, Networks.testnet);
 
 ## Validating an Address
 
-The main use that we expect you'll have for the `Address` class in bitcore is validating that an address is a valid one, what type of address it is (you may be interested on knowing if the address is a simple "pay to public key hash" address or a "pay to script hash" address) and what network does the address belong to.
+The main use that we expect you'll have for the `Address` class in Bitcore is validating that an address is a valid one, what type of address it is (you may be interested on knowing if the address is a simple "pay to public key hash" address or a "pay to script hash" address) and what network does the address belong to.
 
 The code to do these validations looks like this:
 

docs/guide/block.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-# > `bitcore.Block`
+# Block
 
 ## Description
 
-A Block instance represents the information on a block in the bitcoin network. Given a hexa or base64 string representation of the serialization of a block with its transactions, you can instantiate a Block instance. Methods are provided to calculate and check the merkle root hash (if enough data is provided), but transactions won't necessarily be valid spends, and this class won't validate them. A binary representation as a `Buffer` instance is also valid input for a Block's constructor. 
+A Block instance represents the information of a block in the bitcoin network. Given a hexa or base64 string representation of the serialization of a block with its transactions, you can instantiate a Block instance. Methods are provided to calculate and check the merkle root hash (if enough data is provided), but transactions won't necessarily be valid spends, and this class won't validate them. A binary representation as a `Buffer` instance is also valid input for a Block's constructor. 
 
 ```javascript
 

docs/guide/crypto.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# > `bitcore.crypto`
+# Crypto
 
 ## Description
 
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ The `bitcore.Crypto.BN` class contains a wrapper around [bn.js](https://github.c
 
 ## Point
 
-The `bitcore.Crypto.Point` class contains a wrapper around the class Point of [elliptic.js](https://github.com/indutny/elliptic.js), the elliptic curve library used internally in bitcore.
+The `bitcore.Crypto.Point` class contains a wrapper around the class Point of [elliptic.js](https://github.com/indutny/elliptic), the elliptic curve library used internally in bitcore.
 
 ## Hash
 
@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@ The `bitcore.Crypto.Hash` namespace contains a set of hashes and utilities. Thes
 
 ## ECDSA
 
-`bitcore.Crypto.ECDSA` contains a pure javascript implementation of the elliptic curve DSA signature scheme. 
+`bitcore.Crypto.ECDSA` contains a pure JavaScript implementation of the elliptic curve DSA signature scheme.

docs/guide/ecies.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-# > `bitcore-ecies`
+# ECIES
 
 ## Description
 
-Bitcore implements [Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme (ECIES)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Encryption_Scheme), which is a public key encryption system that performs bulk encryption on data usinc a symmetric cipher and a random key.
+Bitcore implements [Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme (ECIES)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Encryption_Scheme), which is a public key encryption system that performs bulk encryption on data using a symmetric cipher and a random key.
 
 For more information refer to the [bitcore-ecies](https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore-ecies) github repo.
 

docs/guide/encoding.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# > `bitcore.encoding`
+# Encoding
 
 ## Description
 

docs/guide/hierarchical.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# > `bitcore.HDKeys`
+# HDKeys
 
 ## Hierarichically Derived Keys
 

docs/guide/index.md

@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-# Bitcore v0.8
-
-## Addresses and Key Management
-
-* [Addresses](models/Address.md)
-* [Using different networks](helpers/Networks.md)
-* [Private Keys](models/PrivateKey.md) and [Public Keys](models/PublicKey.md)
-* [Hierarchically-derived Private and Public Keys](models/Hierarchical.md)
-
-## Payment handling
-* [Using different Units](helpers/Unit.md)
-* [Acknowledging and Requesting payments: Bitcoin URIs](helpers/URI.md)
-* [Payment Protocol Support](helpers/PaymentProtocol.md)
-* [The Transaction Class](models/Transaction.md)
-
-## Bitcoin internals
-* [Scripts](models/Script.md)
-* [Block](models/Block.md)
-
-## Networking
-* [Interface to the Bitcoin P2P network](networking/Peer.md)
-* [Managing a pool of peers](networking/Pool.md)
-* [Connecting to a bitcoind instance through JSON-RPC](networking/JSONRPC.md)
-
-## Extra
-* [Crypto](helpers/Crypto.md)
-* [Encoding](helpers/Encoding.md)
-* [ECIES](helpers/ECIES.md)

docs/guide/jsonrpc.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-# > `bitcore.transport.RPC`
+# JSON-RPC
 
 ## Description
 
-Bitcoind provides a direct interface to the bitcoin network and it also exposes a `JSON-RPC` API. This class allows to connect to a local instance of a bitcoind server and make simple or batch RPC calls to it.
+Bitcoind provides a direct interface to the bitcoin network and it also exposes a `JSON-RPC` API. This class will connect to a local instance of a bitcoind server and make simple or batch RPC calls to it.
 
 ## Connection to bitcoind
 

docs/guide/navigation.md

@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# Bitcore
-
-[Index](index.md)
-
-[Models]()
-
-* [Address](models/Address.md)
-* [Block](models/Block.md)
-* [Hierarchical](models/Hierarchical.md)
-* [Private Key](models/PrivateKey.md)
-* [Public Key](models/PublicKey.md)
-* [Script](models/Script.md)
-* [Transaction](models/Transaction.md)
-
-[Helpers]()
-
-* [Crypto](helpers/Crypto.md)
-* [Encoding](helpers/Encoding.md)
-* [Payment Protocol](helpers/PaymentProtocol.md)
-* [Networks](helpers/Networks.md)
-* [Unit](helpers/Unit.md)
-* [URI](helpers/URI.md)
-
-[Networking]()
-
-* [Peer](networking/Peer.md)
-* [Pool](networking/Pool.md)
-* [JSON-RPC](networking/JSONRPC.md)
-
-[Examples](examples.md)

docs/guide/networks.md

@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
-# > `bitcore.Networks`
+# Networks
 
 ## Description
 
-Bitcore provides support for both the main bitcoin network as well as for `testnet3`, the current test blockchain. We encourage the use of `Networks.livenet` and `Networks.testnet` as constants. Note that the library sometimes may check for equality against this object. Avoid creating a deep copy of this object and using that.
+Bitcore provides support for the main bitcoin network as well as for `testnet3`, the current test blockchain. We encourage the use of `Networks.livenet` and `Networks.testnet` as constants. Note that the library sometimes may check for equality against this object. Avoid creating a deep copy of this object and using that.
 
 The `Network` namespace has a function, `get(...)` that returns an instance of a `Network` or `undefined`. The only argument to this function is some kind of identifier of the network: either its name, a reference to a Network object, or a number used as a magic constant to identify the network (for example, the value `0` that gives bitcoin addresses the distinctive `'1'` at its beginning on livenet, is a `0x6F` for testnet).
 
-## Setting the default network
+## Setting the Default Network
 
-Most project will only need to work in one of either networks. The value of `Networks.defaultNetwork` can be set to `Networks.testnet` if the project will needs only to work on testnet (the default is `Networks.livenet`).
+Most projects will only need to work with one of the networks. The value of `Networks.defaultNetwork` can be set to `Networks.testnet` if the project will need to only to work on testnet (the default is `Networks.livenet`).
 
 ## Network constants
 

docs/guide/paymentprotocol.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# > `bitcore.PaymentProtocol`
+# Payment Protocol
 
 ## Description
 

docs/guide/peer.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# > `bitcore.transport.Peer`
+# Peer
 
 ## Description
 

docs/guide/pool.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# > `bitcore.transport.Pool`
+# Pool
 
 ## Pool
 

docs/guide/privatekey.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# > `bitcore.PrivateKey`
+# Private Key
 
 ## Description
 
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Represents a bitcoin private key and is needed to be able to spend bitcoin and s
 
 ## Instantiate a Private Key
 
-Here is how to create a new private key. It will generate a new random number using `window.crypto` or the Node.js 'crypto' library.
+Here is how to create a new private key. It will generate a new random number using `window.crypto` or the Node.js `crypto` library.
 
 ```javascript
 var privateKey = new PrivateKey();

docs/guide/publickey.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# > `bitcore.PublicKey`
+# Public Key
 
 ## Description
 

docs/guide/script.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# > `bitcore.Script`
+# Script
 
 ## Description
 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ var script = Script.buildDataOut(data);
 assert(script.toString() === 'OP_RETURN 14 0x68656c6c6f20776f726c64212121'
 ```
 
-### Custom scripts
+### Custom Scripts
 
 To create a custom `Script` instance, you must rely on the lower-level methods `add` and `prepend`. Both methods accept the same parameter types, and insert an opcode or data at the beginning (`prepend`) or end (`add`) of the `Script`.
 
@@ -97,10 +97,9 @@ var script = Script()
 assert(script.toString() === 'OP_2SWAP OP_IF OP_NOT 4 0xbacacafe');
 ```
 
+## Script Parsing and Identification
 
-## Script parsing and identification
-
-`Script` has an easy interface to parse raw scripts from the newtwork or bitcoind, and to extract useful information. An illustrative example (for more options check the API reference)
+`Script` has an easy interface to parse raw scripts from the network or bitcoind, and to extract useful information. An illustrative example (for more options check the API reference)
 
 ```javascript
 var raw_script = new Buffer('5221022df8750480ad5b26950b25c7ba79d3e37d75f640f8e5d9bcd5b150a0f85014da2103e3818b65bcc73a7d64064106a859cc1a5a728c4345ff0b641209fba0d90de6e921021f2f6e1e50cb6a953935c3601284925decd3fd21bc445712576873fb8c6ebc1853ae', 'hex');
@@ -113,8 +112,7 @@ s.isScriptHashOut() // false
 s.isMultisigOut() // true
 ```
 
-
-## Script interpreting and validation
+## Script Interpreting and Validation
 
 To validate a transaction, the bitcoin network validates all of its inputs and outputs. To validate an input, the input's script is concatenated with the referenced output script, and the result is executed. If at the end of execution the stack contains a 'true' value, then the transaction is valid.
 You can do this in `bitcore` by using the `Interpreter` class. The entry point (and probably the only interface you'll need for most applications) is the method `Interpreter#verify()`.
@@ -147,4 +145,3 @@ var scriptSig = Script.buildPublicKeyHashIn(publicKey, signature);
 var flags = Interpreter.SCRIPT_VERIFY_P2SH | Interpreter.SCRIPT_VERIFY_STRICTENC;
 var verified = Interpreter().verify(scriptSig, scriptPubkey, tx, inputIndex, flags);
 ```
-

docs/guide/transaction.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# > `bitcore.Transaction`
+# Transaction
 
 ## Description
 
@@ -34,15 +34,13 @@ var transaction = new Transaction().fee(1e8);  // Generous fee of 1 BTC
 
 ## Transaction API
 
-You can take a look at the javadocs for the [Transaction class here](link missing).
-
 ## Input
 
-Transaction inputs are instances of either [Input](https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore/tree/master/lib/transaction/input) or its subclasses. The internal workings of it can be understood from the [API reference](link missing).
+Transaction inputs are instances of either [Input](https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore/tree/master/lib/transaction/input) or its subclasses.
 
 ## Output
 
-Transaction outputs are a very thin wrap around the information provided by a transaction output: its script and its output amount.
+Transaction outputs are a very thin wrapper around the information provided by a transaction output: its script and its output amount.
 
 ## Multisig Transactions
 
@@ -57,13 +55,12 @@ To send a transaction to a multisig address, the API is the same as in the above
   var serialized = multiSigTx.serialize();
 ```
 
-This can be serialized and sent to another party, to complete with the needed
-signatures:
+This can be serialized and sent to another party, to complete with the needed signatures:
 
 ```javascript
   var multiSigTx = new Transaction(serialized)
       .from(utxo, publicKeys, threshold)       // provide info about the multisig output
-                                               // (lost on serialization) 
+                                               // (lost on serialization)
       .sign(anotherSetOfKeys);
 
   assert(multiSigTx.isFullySigned());
@@ -86,7 +83,7 @@ There are a number of data structures being stored internally in a `Transaction`
 
 If you have a larger set of unspent outputs, only some of them will be selected to fulfill the amount. This is done by storing a cache of unspent outputs in a protected member called `_utxos`. When the `to()` method is called, some of these outputs will be selected to pay the requested amount to the appropriate address.
 
-A nit that you should have in mind is that when the transaction is serialized, this cache can't be included in the serialized form. 
+A detail that you should have in mind is that when the transaction is serialized, this cache can't be included in the serialized form.
 
 ## Upcoming changes
 

docs/guide/unit.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-# > `bitcore.Unit`
+# Unit
 
 ## Description
 
-Unit is an utility for handling and converting bitcoins units. We strongly recommend you to always use satoshis to represent amount inside your application and only convert them to other units in the front-end.
+Unit is an utility for handling and converting bitcoin units. We strongly recommend to always use satoshis to represent amount inside your application and only convert them to other units in the front-end.
 
 ## Supported units
 
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ unit = Unit.fromSatoshis(amount);
 
 ## Conversion
 
-Once you have a unit instance, you can check it's representantion in all the available units. For your convinience the classes expose three ways to acomplish this. Using the `.to(unitCode)` method, using a fixed unit like `.toSatoshis()` or by using the accessors.
+Once you have a unit instance, you can check its representantion in all the available units. For your convinience the classes expose three ways to acomplish this. Using the `.to(unitCode)` method, using a fixed unit like `.toSatoshis()` or by using the accessors.
 
 ```javascript
 var unit;

docs/guide/uri.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-# > `bitcore.URI`
+# URI
 
 ## Description
 
-Represents a bitcoin payment uri. Bitcoin URI strings became the most popular way to share payment request, sometimes as a bitcoin link and others using a QR code.
+Represents a bitcoin payment URI. Bitcoin URI strings became the most popular way to share payment request, sometimes as a bitcoin link and others using a QR code.
 
 URI Examples:
 ```
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ console.log(uri.address.network, uri.amount); // 'livenet', 120000000
 ```
 
 ## URI Parameters
-All standard parameters can be found as members of the `URI` instance. However a bitcoin uri may contain other non-standard parameters, all those can be found under the `extra` namespace.
+All standard parameters can be found as members of the `URI` instance. However a bitcoin URI may contain other non-standard parameters, all those can be found under the `extra` namespace.
 
 See [the official BIP21 spec](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0021.mediawiki) for more information.