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From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Alex Morcos <morcos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] New "feefilter" p2p message
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:46:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201602170046.17166.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPWm=eXi98cC0KP=5WayU05hezDFswrPe+vA58cTHvVLc80OzQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 8:20:26 PM Alex Morcos via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> # The feefilter message is defined as a message containing an int64_t where
> pchCommand == "feefilter"

What happened to extensibility? And why waste 64 bits for what is almost 
certainly a small number?

> # The fee filter is additive with a bloom filter for transactions so if an
> SPV client were to load a bloom filter and send a feefilter message,
> transactions would only be relayed if they passed both filters.

This seems to make feefilter entirely useless for wallets?

Luke


  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-17  0:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-16 20:20 [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] New "feefilter" p2p message Alex Morcos
2016-02-17  0:46 ` Luke Dashjr [this message]
2016-02-17  2:28   ` Alex Morcos
2016-02-17  2:36     ` Luke Dashjr
2016-02-17  2:43   ` Gregory Maxwell

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