On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Ricardo Filipe <ricardojdfil...@gmail.com> wrote: > We would only end up with few copies of the historic data if users > could choose what parts of the blockchain to store. Simply store > chunks randomly, according to users available space, and give priority > to the "N most recent" chunks to have more replicas in the network. > > You don't need bittorrent specifically for a DHT, if publicity is a > problem. There are many DHT proposals and implementations, and i bet > one of them should be more suitable to the bitcoin network than > bittorrent's.
That's just about the worst thing you could do for bitcoin. DoS one part of the DHT, you DoS the entire blockchain by breaking the chain. -- Jeff Garzik exMULTI, Inc. jgar...@exmulti.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
