Re: [Bitcoin-development] deterministic transaction expiration

2014-08-08 Thread Kaz Wesley
A new network tx field would have the same problem, right? With a child-refreshes-parent policy, someone wishing to redeem a transaction that has passed its relay window without being confirmed could still do so. On Aug 8, 2014 11:16 AM, Jeff Garzik jgar...@bitpay.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014

Re: [Bitcoin-development] deterministic transaction expiration

2014-08-05 Thread Kaz Wesley
In general, if a transaction has not made it into a block within 144*X blocks, there is _some_ reason it is getting rejected by the miners. This is the crux of my concern: relay policy and miner priorities will not necessarily always be in sync, and node resource management shouldn't rely on

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Squashing redundant tx data in blocks on the wire

2014-07-31 Thread Kaz Wesley
I don't see how set reconciliation alone would be practical for condensed block exchange -- if the keys are txids it'd require a round trip to request the missing tx; if we could somehow get the What's the Difference approach to effectively operate on full transactions instead, the log(keysize)

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Squashing redundant tx data in blocks on the wire

2014-07-31 Thread Kaz Wesley
wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Kaz Wesley kezi...@gmail.com wrote: trip to request the missing tx; if we could somehow get the What's the Difference approach to effectively operate on full transactions instead I explain how to do this on the network block coding page. Given that you

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Squashing redundant tx data in blocks on the wire

2014-07-31 Thread Kaz Wesley
that can't be realized by FEC-based mempool synchronization, implemented separately from channel-memory based index-coding? On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Kaz Wesley kezi...@gmail.com wrote: the need to have transmitted

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Squashing redundant tx data in blocks on the wire

2014-07-31 Thread Kaz Wesley
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Kaz Wesley kezi...@gmail.com wrote: the FEC still lets you fill in the missing transactions without knowing in advance all that will be missing. I don't see why we need to solve

Re: [Bitcoin-development] deterministic transaction expiration

2014-07-31 Thread Kaz Wesley
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Peter Todd p...@petertodd.org wrote: Anything that changes the semantics of nLockTime will do harm to existing and future applications that make use of nLockTime for things like refund transactions. I think this would be compatible with most uses of nLockTime

[Bitcoin-development] Trickle and transaction propogation

2014-07-20 Thread Kaz Wesley
The inv trickling mechanism currently serves two purposes: - protect casual users' privacy by slightly obscuring a tx's originating node - reduce invs unnecessarily sent both directions for a connection It has some drawbacks: - it slows transaction propagation - it delays knowledge between two

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Squashing redundant tx data in blocks on the wire

2014-07-18 Thread Kaz Wesley
Peers exchanging mempool priority policies is great; that accomplishes the flexibility in what txes to remember that I was going for with the forget-filters, but much more neatly, with less overhead and some side benefits. Here's what I'm picturing now: - exchange priority policies in peer

[Bitcoin-development] Squashing redundant tx data in blocks on the wire

2014-07-17 Thread Kaz Wesley
OVERVIEW To improve block propagation, add a new block message that doesn't include transactions the peer is known to have. The message must never require an additional round trip due to any transactions the peer doesn't have, but should be compatible with peers sometimes forgetting transactions

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Squashing redundant tx data in blocks on the wire

2014-07-17 Thread Kaz Wesley
17, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Gavin Andresen gavinandre...@gmail.com wrote: A couple of half-baked thoughts: On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Kaz Wesley kezi...@gmail.com wrote: If there's support for this proposal, I can begin working on the specific implementation details, such as the bloom filters