Thanks for getting this started.
With regards to the specific proposal, I don't believe it's the best option
and still plan to eventually implement the original design outlined more
than a year ago in this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7972.msg116285#msg116285
Namely that
Thanks for this, Amir.
My initial reactions:
1) This is cool and useful (but see 3)
2) This is significantly less secure than validating an entire blockchain;
it's certainly worth working out some use cases here in more detail than
just a sample conversation. More on this below
3) What about
A bloom filter seems like an interesting idea. However this proposal is
concerned mainly with the initialisation stage, whereas this bloom filter is
for pushed blocks.
This proposal still updates new transactions and blocks in the same way, and
it's not inconceivable to later use a bloom
1) This is cool and useful (but see 3)
2) This is significantly less secure than validating an entire blockchain;
it's certainly worth working out some use cases here in more detail than just
a sample conversation. More on this below
3) What about discovery? Will a client now have the
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Amir Taaki zgen...@yahoo.com wrote:
Please check out my proposal,
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0033
I want to use the existing Bitcoin protocol to provide this functionality in
order to maintain compatibility. This proposal does not affect current
On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 6:18:27 PM Jeff Garzik wrote:
Instead of further overloading service bits in the version message, or
altering the version message, let us instead make feature discovery an
easy, flexible, extensible process.
We can add new commands without impacting older nodes, so
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Luke-Jr l...@dashjr.org wrote:
That assumes you already have a connection to the peer in question.
As I understand it, the service bits are propagated as part of the address,
so you can see at a glance which nodes you want to connect to for some
special
On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 6:38:28 PM Jeff Garzik wrote:
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Luke-Jr l...@dashjr.org wrote:
That assumes you already have a connection to the peer in question.
As I understand it, the service bits are propagated as part of the
address, so you can see at a glance
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