Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP to improve the availability of blocks

2012-04-30 Thread Peter Vessenes
gt; > > > --- On Mon, 4/30/12, Amir Taaki wrote: > > > From: Amir Taaki > > Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP to improve the availability of > blocks > > To: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" < > bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP to improve the availability of blocks

2012-04-30 Thread Zell Faze
m: Amir Taaki > Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP to improve the availability of blocks > To: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" > > Date: Monday, April 30, 2012, 3:11 PM > This is optimisation where it isn't > needed. Bandwidth is not the bottleneck o

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP to improve the availability of blocks

2012-04-30 Thread Amir Taaki
Now there are 2 code branches that must be maintained - urgh. From: Wladimir To: Rebroad (sourceforge) Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP to improve the availability of blo

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP to improve the availability of blocks

2012-04-30 Thread Wladimir
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Rebroad (sourceforge) < rebroad+sourceforge@gmail.com> wrote: > > My proposal is that in addition to the size (which is advertised in > the header), the hash is also advertised in the header (of a block). > This would help nodes to determine whether they wanted

[Bitcoin-development] BIP to improve the availability of blocks

2012-04-30 Thread Rebroad (sourceforge)
Dear Bitcoin developers, In brief, the proposal I have is to extend the protocol to allow partial block download and upload. This is for people with intermittent connectivity or restricted connectivity. e.g. my own internet connection is quite slow, and my ISP routinely sends RSTs to both sides of