I think 25% bandwidth savings is certainly considerable, especially for
people running full nodes in countries like Australia where internet
bandwidth is lower and there are data caps.
I absolutely would not dismiss 25% compression. gzip and bzip2 compression
is relatively standard, and I'd
Hi everyone,
Thanks to everyone for a very friendly and scientifically-oriented
discussion. We have collated all the issues that have been raised related
to NG, and placed them in context, here:
http://hackingdistributed.com/2015/11/09/bitcoin-ng-followup/
Overall, NG has a unique insight:
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Binaries for bitcoin Core version 0.11.2rc1 are now available from:
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I would expect that since a block contains mostly hashes and crypto signatures,
it would be almost totally incompressible. I just calculated compression
ratios:
zlib-15%(file is LARGER)
gzip 28%
bzip225%
So zlib compression is right out. How much is ~25% bandwidth savings
