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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] NODE_BLOOM BIP
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 18:59:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130818225930.GA23974@savin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP2jONtRJ6oF1YqKJB9nm1HcMkfz_yzeNshEWqD-5fdNiA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:00:23AM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote:
> The original Bloom filtering spec did not make this feature optional for
> the same reason gzip isn't an optional part of the PNG specification. I see
> no reason to revisit that. It's definitely not the case that making every
> possible feature optional is smart design, often it's the opposite.

Bloom filtering isn't lossless so to speak.

A better analogy would be making re-sharing an optinal part of the
BitTorrent specification, and then expecting that the majority of users
would never upload data to peers that needed it.

-- 
'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-18 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-18  2:59 Peter Todd
2013-08-18 22:00 ` Mike Hearn
2013-08-18 22:22   ` Gavin Andresen
2013-08-18 23:11     ` Peter Todd
2013-08-18 22:59   ` Peter Todd [this message]

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