> For what it's worth, there was consideration of replacing protocol > buffers when modifying BIP70 to function with the altcoin I work on > (changes were required anyway in eliminate any risk that payment > requests could not be accidentally applied to the wrong blockchain).
Why not serialize some kind of blockchain identifier with the messages? Arbitrarily deviating from a given design choice just for the sake of doing it differently may serve the goal of creating more overall code diversity, but would not necessarily serve the quality of the blockchain network where it is done for. Best regards, Isidor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
