Hello, At DevCore London, Gavin mentioned the idea that we could get rid of sending full blocks. Instead, newly minted blocks would only be distributed as block headers plus all hashes of the transactions included in the block. The assumption would be that nodes have already the majority of these transactions in their mempool.
The advantages are clear: it's more efficient, as we would send transactions only once over the network, and it's fast as the resulting blocks would be small. Moreover, we would get rid of the blocksize limit for a long time. Unfortunately, I am too ignorant of bitcoin core's internals to judge the changes required to make this happen. (I guess we'd require a new block format and a way to bulk-request missing transactions.) However, I'm curious to hear what others with a better grasp of bitcoin core's internals have to say about it. Regards, Arne ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development