Re: [Bitcoin-development] Segmented Block Relaying BIP draft.

2012-09-11 Thread Matthew Mitchell
For some reason sourceforge is not sending me updates anymore but I can see the replies online… There could be a slightly more simple protocol which gives all the transactions hashes and nodes can then download the transactions separately. However there are two problems: 1. Downloading all

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Segmented Block Relaying BIP draft.

2012-09-11 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Matthew Mitchell matthewmitch...@godofgod.co.uk wrote: For some reason sourceforge is not sending me updates anymore but I can see the replies online… There could be a slightly more simple protocol which gives all the transactions hashes and nodes can then

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Segmented Block Relaying BIP draft.

2012-09-11 Thread Matthew Mitchell
On 11 Sep 2012, at 20:42, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: Someone can do that just by pipelining the one at a time requests. How much bandwidth do you think you could save over that? You wouldn't need to pipeline the requests, just place more than one inventory vector in get data,