Re: [Bitcoin-development] Segmented Block Relaying BIP draft.

2012-09-11 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Matthew Mitchell wrote: > You wouldn't need to pipeline the requests, just place more than one > inventory vector in get data, right? Well my messages would save the space of > those inventory vectors. Instead of needing 36 byte inventory vectors for > each tran

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Segmented Block Relaying BIP draft.

2012-09-11 Thread Matthew Mitchell
On 11 Sep 2012, at 20:42, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Someone can do that just by pipelining the one at a time requests. > How much bandwidth do you think you could save over that? You wouldn't need to pipeline the requests, just place more than one inventory vector in get data, right? Well my mes

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Segmented Block Relaying BIP draft.

2012-09-11 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Matthew Mitchell wrote: > For some reason sourceforge is not sending me updates anymore but I can see > the replies online… > > There could be a slightly more simple protocol which gives all the > transactions hashes and nodes can then download the transactions s

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Segmented Block Relaying BIP draft.

2012-09-11 Thread Matthew Mitchell
For some reason sourceforge is not sending me updates anymore but I can see the replies online… There could be a slightly more simple protocol which gives all the transactions hashes and nodes can then download the transactions separately. However there are two problems: 1. Downloading all the