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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo.com>
Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net"
	<bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New P2P commands for diagnostics, SPV clients
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 10:25:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP037ZFr=NgVGQh3zU5fbEs9_03AdBjdNaUTwKjZvwoFmQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339785752.91313.YahooMailNeo@web121004.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

The bottleneck for the android Bitcoin Wallet app is rapidly becoming
bandwidth and parse time.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Why though? The bottleneck is not network traffic but disk space usage/blockchain validation time.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
> To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti.com>
> Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 3:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New P2P commands for diagnostics, SPV clients
>
>> Yes, the format is something that must be hashed out (no pun
>> intended).  Need input from potential users about what information
>> they might need.
>
> Matts point that a branch-per-transaction may duplicate data is well
> made, that said, I suspect a format that tries to fix this would be
> much more complicated.
>
> How about see this project as a three part change?
>
> First step - add the mempool command and make nodes sync up their
> mempools on startup.
>
> Second step - if protocol version >= X, the "block" message consists
> of a header + num transactions + vector<hash>  instead of the full
> transactions themselves.
>
> On receiving such a block, we go look to see which transactions we're
> missing from the mempool and request them with getdata. Each time we
> receive a tx message we check to see if it was one we were missing
> from a block. Once all transactions in the block message are in
> memory, we go ahead and assemble the block, then verify as per normal.
> This should speed up block propagation. Miners have an incentive to
> upgrade because it should reduce wasted work.
>
> Third step - new message, getmerkletx takes a vector<hash> and returns
> a merkletx message: "merkle branch missing the root + transaction data
> itself" for each requested transaction. The filtering commands are
> added, so the block message now only lists transaction hashes that
> match the filter which can then be requested with getmerkletx.
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-16  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-13 20:46 [Bitcoin-development] New P2P commands for diagnostics, SPV clients Jeff Garzik
2012-06-14 11:52 ` Mike Hearn
2012-06-15 11:52   ` Mike Hearn
2012-06-15 13:19   ` Matt Corallo
2012-06-15 13:23     ` Mike Hearn
2012-06-15 14:39       ` Matt Corallo
2012-06-16  8:27         ` Mike Hearn
2012-06-19 19:09           ` Matt Corallo
2012-07-21 11:45             ` Mike Hearn
2012-07-23  7:54               ` Andreas Petersson
2012-07-23 16:40                 ` Matt Corallo
2012-07-24  8:16                 ` Mike Hearn
2012-06-15 13:26   ` Jeff Garzik
2012-06-15 13:43     ` Mike Hearn
2012-06-15 14:56       ` Matt Corallo
2012-06-15 15:32       ` Jeff Garzik
2012-06-15 16:20         ` Matt Corallo
2012-06-15 18:42       ` Amir Taaki
2012-06-16  8:25         ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2012-06-15 15:43   ` Simon Barber
2012-06-15 16:40     ` Jeff Garzik

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