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On 24 September 2015 14:37:40 GMT-04:00, Suhas Daftuar via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: >On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Tier Nolan via bitcoin-dev < >bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> >> Is there actually a requirement for the new message? New nodes could >just >> unilaterally switch to sending headers and current nodes would be >> compatible. >> > >I don't believe that unilaterally switching to headers announcements >would >work for all network participants -- both for users running older >Bitcoin >Core versions (anything before 0.10, which I believe all ignore headers >messages) and for non-Bitcoin Core software that participates on the >network (which may ignore headers messages too, I'm not sure what all >is >out there). You can enable the behaviour based on advertised p2p network version. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQE9BAEBCgAnIBxQZXRlciBUb2RkIDxwZXRlQHBldGVydG9kZC5vcmc+BQJWBEO5 AAoJEMCF8hzn9Lncz4MH/3ztGWdFvMWWcwQsjIRH+eP6PH57WaEru1smmFYOmKrj djdiRVdxfChxRqP3adO21RUKKchjl8DNjrFJHPFz75FSM0cDcD0QAGAHilVdnICE LEIlTEoiIc0f1z9f/EJHSHPhiUXMnjpl/l7PYJFZV3Lt2Bl30yLsNnrp9qxjR30n 3nykZjyRad4JSavdTP6Evd3qaqwGXNUWsdObXNI+WPKlrw6hczlhFDKQ7RC1FPQU Rbgb21pavtqLUTwbBZGUisAAc94e2Gama1p3ioUFklbVtLTdw+FtxPgV/0ZS75OR V9pCXIbg9VM6QY4+9gYnP635+qCkqAJ4tBsYGmsT8yA= =cF4B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
