Re: [Bitcoin-development] [ANN] High-speed Bitcoin Relay Network

[Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>]

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I took a brief look at the code - it's looking very reasonable. You can
replace any construct like

try {
  Thread.sleep(1000);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
  throw new RuntimeException(e);
}

which is quite verbose, just with
Uninterruptibles.sleepUninterruptably(1000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS); (and of
course static imports help too)

I think for this concept to take off, you'd need a website and to recruit
someone to help you market it. Pool operators won't reach out to you.

I still find it perhaps more elegant to just boost the connectivity of the
existing network with bitcoind changes, but this can help for now.



On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Matt Corallo <bitcoin-list@bluematt.me>wrote:

> No, the transactions relayed are piped through a bitcoind first (ie
> fully verified by a bitcoind). For blocks, for which the timing needs to
> be tighter, bitcoinj does SPV-validation. Though it is possible to
> create a block which passes SPV validation but causes a DoS score, doing
> so would cost a miner a full block's worth of profits, which they are
> fairly unlikely to do. In any case, if it every becomes a problem, its
> not hard to adapt addnode to allow higher DoS scores for individual nodes.
>
> Matt
>
> On 11/06/13 07:25, Tier Nolan wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Matt Corallo <bitcoin-list@bluematt.me
> > <mailto:bitcoin-list@bluematt.me>> wrote:
> >
> >     Relay node details:
> >      * The relay nodes do some data verification to prevent DoS, but in
> >     order to keep relay fast, they do not fully verify the data they are
> >     relaying, thus YOU SHOULD NEVER mine a block building on top of a
> >     relayed block without fully checking it with your own bitcoin
> validator
> >     (as you would any other block relayed from the P2P network).
> >
> >
> > Wouldn't this cause disconnects due to misbehavior?
> >
> > A standard node connecting to a relay node would receive
> > blocks/transactions that are not valid in some way and then disconnect.
> >
> > Have you looked though the official client to find what things are
> > considered signs that a peer is hostile?  I assume things like double
> > spending checks count as misbehavior and can't be quickly checked by a
> > relay node.
> >
> > Maybe another bit could be assigned in the services field as "relay".
> > This means that the node doesn't do any checking.
> >
> > Connects to relay nodes could be command line/config file only.  Peers
> > wouldn't connect to them.
>
>
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