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Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 10:25:48 +0200
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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New P2P commands for diagnostics,
	SPV clients
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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/bl=
ockchain 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). =C2=A0Need 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 >=3D X, the "block" message consists
> of a header + num transactions + vector<hash>=C2=A0 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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