[Bitcoin-development] does "stubbing" off Merkle trees reduce initial download bandwidth?

2012-01-01 Thread Elden Tyrell
Satoshi's paper mentions that storage requirements for the blockchain can be reduced by deleting transactions whose outputs have been spent. If I understand correctly, this technique can only be used for reducing *storage* requirements, not *bandwidth* needed for the initial chain download by a

[Bitcoin-development] [ANN] Bitcoin-seeder v0.1

2012-01-01 Thread Pieter Wuille
Hello all, I've just tagged v0.1.0 of my bitcoin-seeder program on github: https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin-seeder This is the program powering the DNS seed on seed.bitcoin.sipa.be. It is a crawler for the bitcoin network, with integrated DNS server. It's not more than a preview release with