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From: Matt Corallo <lf-lists@mattcorallo.com>
To: Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink.com>,
	Tom Harding via bitcoin-dev
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
	bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Idea: Efficient bitcoin block propagation
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 20:55:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1DEBDD04-5F00-4013-B332-A9293D775338@mattcorallo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55C3A4BF.1010509@thinlink.com>



On August 6, 2015 8:17:35 PM GMT+02:00, Tom Harding via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>On 8/6/2015 10:16 AM, Sergio Demian Lerner via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>> Is there any up to date documentation about TheBlueMatt relay network
>> including what kind of block compression it is currently doing?
>(apart
>> from the source code)
>>
>
>Another question.
>
>Did the "relay network" relay
>0000000000000000009cc829aa25b40b2cd4eb83dd498c12ad0d26d90c439d99, the
>BTC Nuggets block that was invalid post-softfork?  If so,

The version check was only added hours after the initial fork, so it should have (assuming BTC Nuggets or anyone who accepted it is running a client)

> - Is there reason to believe that by so doing, it contributed to the
>growth of the 2015-07-04 fork?

The reason other miners mined on that fork is because they were watching each other's stratum servers, so the relay network should not have had a significant effect. Still, even in a different fork, miners already aggressively relay around the network/between each other, so I'm not so worried.

>- Will the relay network at least validate block version numbers in the
>future?
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-06 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-05 19:07 [bitcoin-dev] Idea: Efficient bitcoin block propagation Arnoud Kouwenhoven - Pukaki Corp
2015-08-05 19:27 ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-05 19:53   ` Arnoud Kouwenhoven - Pukaki Corp
2015-08-05 20:16     ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-08-05 21:19       ` Arnoud Kouwenhoven - Pukaki Corp
2015-08-05 22:14         ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-08-06 17:16           ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2015-08-06 17:33             ` Olaoluwa Osuntokun
2015-08-06 18:17             ` Tom Harding
2015-08-06 18:42               ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-08-06 20:50                 ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-06 20:55               ` Matt Corallo [this message]
2015-08-06 20:38             ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-07  7:14 ` jl2012

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