Gavin Andresen via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> writes: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Emin Gün Sirer < > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> How to Do It >> >> If we want to compress Bitcoin, a programming challenge/contest would be >> one of the best ways to find the best possible, Bitcoin-specific >> compressor. This is the kind of self-contained exercise that bright young >> hackers love to tackle. It'd bring in new programmers into the ecosystem, >> and many of us would love to discover the limits of compressibility for >> Bitcoin bits on a wire. And the results would be interesting even if the >> final compression engine is not enabled by default, or not even merged. >> > > I love this idea. Lets build a standardized data set to test against using > real data from the network (has anybody done this yet?).
https://github.com/rustyrussell/bitcoin-corpus It includes mempool contents and tx receipt logs for 1 week across 4 nodes. I vaguely plan to update it every year. A more ambitious version would add some topology information, but we need to figure out some anonymization strategy for the data. Cheers, Rusty. _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
