Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] NODE_BLOOM BIP

From: Peter Todd <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 18:59:30 -0400

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.

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