Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Transaction Relay over Nostr

2023-05-30 Thread Greg Sanders via bitcoin-dev
Hi Joost, David, In my mind, weak blocks' main benefit would be that it improves block relay by giving PoW-hints on what are in miner's mempools. Non-standard transactions could even be cached(even if not validated until block inclusion), which would tolerate more heterogeneity in policies

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Transaction Relay over Nostr

2023-05-30 Thread Joost Jager via bitcoin-dev
Hi David, > A block template is an ordered list of raw transactions that can all be > included in the next block (with some space reserved for a coinbase > transaction). A full node can validate those transactions and calculate > how much fee they pay. A Nostr relay can simply relay almost[1]

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Transaction Relay over Nostr

2023-05-27 Thread David A. Harding via bitcoin-dev
On 2023-05-22 21:19, Joost Jager via bitcoin-dev wrote: A notable advantage of this approach is that it delegates the responsibility of dealing with Denial-of-Service (DoS) threats to the relays themselves. They could, for example, require a payment to mitigate such concerns. Hi Joost, Thanks

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Transaction Relay over Nostr

2023-05-23 Thread Joost Jager via bitcoin-dev
Hi fd0, > - Transactions could be encrypted when published as nostr events initially > except size, fee rate and offer. This can be used by different clients to > show them as external mempool with transactions sorted by fee rate without > affecting privacy of users. > I don't think this will

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Transaction Relay over Nostr

2023-05-23 Thread alicexbt via bitcoin-dev
Hi Joost, Transaction relay over nostr sounds interesting. I have 2 suggestions: - Transactions could be encrypted when published as nostr events initially except size, fee rate and offer. This can be used by different clients to show them as external mempool with transactions sorted by fee

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Transaction Relay over Nostr

2023-05-23 Thread Joost Jager via bitcoin-dev
Hi, I write to get your thoughts on an alternative approach for Bitcoin transaction relay, addressing some of the limitations in the current peer-to-peer transaction relay system. To the best of my knowledge, the credit for the original concept goes to Ben Carman. I felt it would be beneficial