Author: Gregory Maxwell 2014-08-18 23:20:54
Published on: 2014-08-18T23:20:54+00:00
In an email exchange on August 18, 2014, Ivan Pustogarov explained how Bitcoin peers keep a history of addresses that are forwarded to their neighbors. The purpose of this is to prevent the retransmission of an address that has already been forwarded to a neighbor. However, it seems that there was some confusion in the conversation and Pustogarov apologized for any misunderstandings.
Updated on: 2023-05-19T19:14:29.179519+00:00