From: Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org>
To: "G. Andrew Stone" <g.andrew.stone@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Services bit for xthin blocks
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 20:51:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgQi1X4v9WxT1pnd_XSyE2b8hUZUv0z5A8cOEvw5RztOKw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHUwRvuR9qtYc+rVh1yPbQoESxm4m0r6a+Fd6VF=FuT0vom_HQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 8:06 PM, G. Andrew Stone via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> The Bitcoin Unlimited client needs a services bit to indicate that the node
> is capable of communicating thin blocks. We propose to use bit 4 as AFAIK
> bit 3 is already earmarked for Segregated Witness.
Does this functionality change peer selection? If not, the preferred
signaling mechanism is probably the one in BIP 130.
Otherwise, I think the standard method for getting numbers has been to
write a BIP documenting the usage. I don't know if that is intentional
or just how things have previously happened; and I don't have much of
an opinion on it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-07 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-07 20:06 [bitcoin-dev] Services bit for xthin blocks G. Andrew Stone
2016-03-07 20:51 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2016-03-07 21:10 ` dagurval
2016-03-08 2:35 ` G. Andrew Stone
2016-03-08 17:19 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-03-09 18:11 ` G. Andrew Stone
2016-03-09 21:11 ` Tier Nolan
2016-03-08 5:14 ` Dave Scotese
[not found] ` <CAAS2fgSf_qYaT7ahQTbmRoQpG57qgF26NKVuGGaEzpMZmCOFoA@mail.gmail.com>
2016-03-08 6:09 ` [bitcoin-dev] Fwd: " Gregory Maxwell
2016-03-07 21:09 ` [bitcoin-dev] " Tier Nolan
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