On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 5:58 PM, gladoscc via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> I think 25% bandwidth savings is certainly considerable, especially for
> people running full nodes in countries like Australia where internet
> bandwidth is lower and there are data caps.
>
I think 25% bandwidth savings is certainly considerable, especially for
people running full nodes in countries like Australia where internet
bandwidth is lower and there are data caps.
I absolutely would not dismiss 25% compression. gzip and bzip2 compression
is relatively standard, and I'd consid
Dear All,
Just a note that we've extended the last day for submissions by two days.
i.e. Proposals should be submitted to propos...@scalingbitcoin.org by November
11th 23:59 UTC
Cheers,
p.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Jeremy via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
I would expect that since a block contains mostly hashes and crypto signatures,
it would be almost totally incompressible. I just calculated compression
ratios:
zlib-15%(file is LARGER)
gzip 28%
bzip225%
So zlib compression is right out. How much is ~25% bandwidth savings worth
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Peter Tschipper via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> I opened a PR #6973 this morning for Zlib Block Compression for block
> relay and at the request of @sipa this should have a BIP associated
> with it. The idea is simple, to compr
This is my first time through this process so please bear with me.
I opened a PR #6973 this morning for Zlib Block Compression for block
relay and at the request of @sipa this should have a BIP associated
with it. The idea is simple, to compress the datastream before
sending, initially for blo
Hi everyone,
Thanks to everyone for a very friendly and scientifically-oriented
discussion. We have collated all the issues that have been raised related
to NG, and placed them in context, here:
http://hackingdistributed.com/2015/11/09/bitcoin-ng-followup/
Overall, NG has a unique insight: tu
On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Bryan Bishop wrote:
> Gavin, could you please provide some clarity around the definition and
> meaning of "key-holder [decentralization]"? Is this about the absolute
> number of key-holders? or rather about the number of transactions (per unit
> time?) that key-ho
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