Hello world, I've been thinking recently about a few ideas that would benefit from new p2p messages, namely template sharing [0], updating the bip324-one-byte-message-types [1], and sharing recent stale blocks [2]. That's made me want to make sure that we've got a good way of negotiating new features, and revisiting the ideas from the 2020 thread [3] has me still liking the "FEATURE" message idea [4].
As such, and with Ava's recent exhortation that everyone should be writing BIPs [5] in mind, I've written a BIP: https://github.com/ajtowns/bips/blob/202512-p2p-feature/bip-peer-feature-negotiation.md Sample code, though that part isn't really very interesting: https://github.com/ajtowns/bitcoin/commit/80301f0040fe6048a85b89d0fdf0ffcca836a1d0 The BIP is perhaps a bit over-engineered at this point for what it does, but I figure better to be over-engineered than under-. And in any event, there was some degree of breakage with the SENDADDRV2's deployment [6,7] which would be good to avoid repeating. In any event, the BIP text has a bunch more background, etc. Comments welcome. Cheers, aj [0] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/33691 [1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1378#discussion_r2585766526 [2] https://github.com/bitcoin-data/stale-blocks The idea behind sharing stale blocks (or headers) more proactively, is it better insight into the orphan rate, and whether hashrate is extending the chain vs potentially creating a reorg; and also potentially makes syncing to the new tip after a reorgs more efficient, as you'll have already downloaded the parent of the new tip [3] https://gnusha.org/pi/bitcoindev/CAFp6fsE=HPFUMFhyuZkroBO_QJ-dUWNJqCPg9=fmj3jqnu1...@mail.gmail.com/ [4] https://gnusha.org/pi/bitcoindev/[email protected]/ [5] https://x.com/btcplusplus/status/2000489894515253529 [6] https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/issues/1661 [7] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/20564 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Bitcoin Development Mailing List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bitcoindev/aUUXLgEUCgGb122o%40erisian.com.au.
