Hi Jeff!


On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 3:11 AM, Jeff Johnson via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
 
Raw block
998,198 bytes

Gzip
521,212 bytes (52% ratio)
(needs 2MB to decompress).

I don't know how you got that raw block, but it seems a bit odd.
If you look at it in an hex editor, you'll notice that every odd byte is 0, and that explain the unusual high compression ratio.

Bye!