[bitcoin-dev] Block Batch Filters for Light Clients

["admin@bitaps.com" <admin@bitaps.com>]

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Hello list, 

Here is a link for a draft of a BIP for  compact probabilistic block filters alternative of BIP 158

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jH9tEUyb9w2OZd4-kxfGuyNIIZzmgkEb_z0qSxv80ik/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jH9tEUyb9w2OZd4-kxfGuyNIIZzmgkEb_z0qSxv80ik/edit?usp=sharing>

Summary:

 - BIP 158  false positive rate is low, we can achieve lower bandwidth with higher false positive rate filter while sync blockchain

 - BIP 158 not do not support filter batching by design of used parameters for siphash and Golomb coding optimal parameters

 - Alternative compression with delta coding and splitting data to 2 bit string  sequences. First for data without prefixes, second one for information about  bit length written to first sequence.
   Second sequence have a lot of duplicates,  compressed with 2 round of Huffman algorithm. (Effectivity about 98% vs Golomb with optimal parameters)

 - Block filters batching reduce filter size significantly

- Separation of filters by address type allows lite client not to download redundant information without compromising privacy.

- Lite client filters download strategy: get biggest filter (smallest blocks/size rate) for blocks range, in case positive test  -> get medium filters to reduce blocks range ->  get block filters for affected range -> download affected blocks over TOR 

Implementation (python): https://github.com/bitaps-com/pybtc/blob/bugfix/pybtc/functions/filters.py#L172 <https://github.com/bitaps-com/pybtc/blob/bugfix/pybtc/functions/filters.py#L172>

Exactly information from mainnet  about size for separated filters by address types and batch size will be added within few days.

Thanks for any feedback.
      Aleksey Karpov


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