Author: Mike Hearn 2012-10-24 19:10:49
Published on: 2012-10-24T19:10:49+00:00
The email exchange between two individuals, regarding Bitcoin's functionality, was discussed in the given context. The conversation touches upon the redundancy of inv announcements and nodes keeping track of which ones have been seen. Gavin Andresen, one of the people involved, raises concerns about complicated BIP for a rare case where more than a handful of transactions in a block match the wallet transactions. They also discuss the merkleblock message containing a list of transaction hashes, with any unannounced or unseen transactions automatically sent to avoid slow round trips. Andresen further expresses his worry about requiring serving/relaying nodes to keep track of transactions as it could lead to DoS attacks.
Updated on: 2023-06-06T08:06:22.194048+00:00