Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-04-09 📝 Original message:On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at ...
📅 Original date posted:2014-04-09
📝 Original message:On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Mark Friedenbach <mark at monetize.io> wrote:
> (2) there's a reasonable pathway to doing this all in-protocol, so there's
> no reason to introduce external dependencies.
Not just a speculative pathway. Pieter implemented headers first:
https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/tree/headersfirst and it was
everything we hoped it would be— it easily can saturate residential
broadband, produces less load hot-spotting, copes with unreliable
peers, etc. It's now just slowly making its way into Bitcoin core.
📝 Original message:On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Mark Friedenbach <mark at monetize.io> wrote:
> (2) there's a reasonable pathway to doing this all in-protocol, so there's
> no reason to introduce external dependencies.
Not just a speculative pathway. Pieter implemented headers first:
https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/tree/headersfirst and it was
everything we hoped it would be— it easily can saturate residential
broadband, produces less load hot-spotting, copes with unreliable
peers, etc. It's now just slowly making its way into Bitcoin core.