Gavin Andresen via bitcoin-dev
writes:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Emin Gün Sirer <
> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> How to Do It
>>
>> If we want to compress Bitcoin, a programming challenge/contest would be
>> one of the best ways to find the best possible, Bitcoin-spec
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Emin Gün Sirer <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> How to Do It
>
> If we want to compress Bitcoin, a programming challenge/contest would be
> one of the best ways to find the best possible, Bitcoin-specific
> compressor. This is the kind of self-conta
Emin's email presents to me the idea of dictionaries that already contain
the data we'd want to compress. With 8 bytes of indexing data, we can
refer to a TxID or a Public Key or any existing part of the blockchain.
There are also data sequences like scripts that contain a few variable
chunks and
