Tier Nolan [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2017-04-18 📝 Original message:This has been discussed ...

📅 Original date posted:2017-04-18
📝 Original message:This has been discussed before.

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-May/008101.html

including a list of nice to have features by Maxwell

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-May/008110.html

You meet most of these rules, though you do have to download blocks from
multiple peers.

The suggestion in that thread were for a way to compactly indicate which
blocks a node has. Each node would then store a sub-set of all the
blocks. You just download the blocks you want from the node that has them.

Each node would be recommended to store the last few days worth anyway.
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