Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 35: add mempool message

2012-08-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Pieter Wuille wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:05:58PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> On MSG_MEMTX: The current version has a much higher Just Works value. >> >> On empty "inv": It is generally better to do something >> unconditionally, than have a response gene

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 35: add mempool message

2012-08-17 Thread Pieter Wuille
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:05:58PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On MSG_MEMTX: The current version has a much higher Just Works value. > > On empty "inv": It is generally better to do something > unconditionally, than have a response generated only under certain > conditions. > > And Alan is corr

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 35: add mempool message

2012-08-17 Thread Mike Hearn
I think MSG_TX is fine. Simply sending an inv to the other node at startup would work, but it's better to request it explicitly as it will let the connecting peer configure a bloom filter before requesting mempool contents. It's already too heavy for mobile clients to download the entire mempool co