Re: [Bitcoin-development] Trickle and transaction propogation

2014-07-20 Thread Mike Hearn
No comment on the proposal itself, which sounds reasonable but I didn't think about it much yet. Instead, just an observation that by now most users are not using the Core wallet anymore, but rather use either SPV wallets or more centralised blockchain/coinbase style gateways to the network. SPV w

[Bitcoin-development] Trickle and transaction propogation

2014-07-20 Thread Kaz Wesley
The inv trickling mechanism currently serves two purposes: - protect casual users' privacy by slightly obscuring a tx's originating node - reduce invs unnecessarily sent both directions for a connection It has some drawbacks: - it slows transaction propagation - it delays knowledge between two node