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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Why are we bleeding nodes?
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On 04/07/2014 12:20 PM, Tamas Blummer wrote:
> Validation has to be sequantial, but that step can be deferred until the
> blocks before a point are loaded and continous.

And how do you find those blocks?

I have a suggestion: have nodes advertise which range of full blocks
they possess, then you can perform synchronization from the adversed ranges!