[bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] New "sendheaders" p2p message

Hi, I'm proposing the addition of a new, optional p2p message to help improve the way blocks are announced on the network. The draft BIP is available here and pasted below: https://gist.github.com/sdaftuar/465bf008f0a4768c0def The goal of this p2p message is to facilitate nodes being able to

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] New "sendheaders" p2p message

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 24 September 2015 14:56:23 GMT-04:00, Suhas Daftuar wrote: >I considered that as well, but it seemed to me that other software on >the >network (say, different wallet implementations) might prefer the option >of >being

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] New "sendheaders" p2p message

I considered that as well, but it seemed to me that other software on the network (say, different wallet implementations) might prefer the option of being able to bump up their protocol version in the future to pick up some other change, without having to also opt-in to receiving

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] New "sendheaders" p2p message

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Suhas Daftuar via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm proposing the addition of a new, optional p2p message to help improve > the way blocks are announced on the network. The draft BIP is available > here and pasted below: >

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] New "sendheaders" p2p message

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 24 September 2015 14:37:40 GMT-04:00, Suhas Daftuar via bitcoin-dev wrote: >On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Tier Nolan via bitcoin-dev < >bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> >> Is there