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> On 01 Dec 2015, at 06:28, Matt Corallo via bitcoin-dev =
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>=20
> I'm really not a fan of this at all. To start with, adding a =
compression library that is directly accessible to the network on =
financial software is a really, really scary idea.

I have the same opinion.

On the other hand, I can imagine using compression on local blocks =
storage (be it compressed filesystem, or compression in the user =
space/in the application - compare with =
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/2278). Now that we support =
pruning and obfuscating, this could be another option. Saving ~20% can =
be interesting in some usecases.
-- =20
Pavel Jan=C3=ADk