-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 > But I also agree that its important that <everything> be splittable into > ranges > because otherwise when having to choose between serving historic data > and— say— 40 GB storage, a great many are going to choose not to serve > historic data... and so nodes may be willing to contribute 4-39 GB storage > to the network there will be no good way for them to do so and we may end > up with too few copies of the historic data available.
Have we considered just leaving that problem to a different protocol such as BitTorrent? Offering up a few GB of storage capacity is a nice idea but it means we would soon have to add structure to the network to allow nodes to find each other to actually get that data. BitTorrent already has that issue thought through carefully with it's DHT support. What are the logistics of either integrating a DHT capable BitTorrent client, or just calling out to some library? We could still use the Bitcoin network to bootstrap the BitTorrent DHT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJRfeF/AAoJEEWCsU4mNhiP228H+gIiBhOf65ydmVXoq7d6toNt FmWZaHUxAKtdADINqKHKjuCVGb+3RITwZIgQ0t2MO3OlG1FRFzZv841QBmdaW7JI B6uF2hBxw6oy3GolzIbSUBX+7VyoNvFGT9c548wfLWC71O7A9/Wf3dUssN6VdWXG zm2vTO8cnMOHNt0Iu4uRw5mvOOU6WV9f6k3BsnQEK8y8E3w1k8xZIrHMqCo99B5U a0R2TOpIyK++8xz3Ls1johcFcfwkphESn8SIxMeyb/sgotxO23yqQNDqn8rDCD4S PxVY/yzpftinjR55bvvjRGDVkUY43ixU8t7lFOgI1vwmfRw4jBqk7WWYJK7jC6c= =0VmS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
