The original Bloom filtering spec did not make this feature optional for
the same reason gzip isn't an optional part of the PNG specification. I see
no reason to revisit that. It's definitely not the case that making every
possible feature optional is smart design, often it's the opposite.
If in
Mike pointed out exactly the reason I oppose a NODE_BLOOM service bit: I
also think it is a bad idea to start making various bits and pieces of the
protocol optional.
It is bad for privacy (easier to fingerprint nodes) and bad for
decentralization (fewer nodes support your required feature set).
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:00:23AM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote:
The original Bloom filtering spec did not make this feature optional for
the same reason gzip isn't an optional part of the PNG specification. I see
no reason to revisit that. It's definitely not the case that making every
possible
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