Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Revisiting NODE_BLOOM: Proposed BIP

From: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:29:57 +0200

> NODE_BLOOM is distinct from NODE_NETWORK, and it is legal to advertise
> NODE_BLOOM but not NODE_NETWORK (eg for nodes running in pruned mode
> which, nonetheless, provide filtered access to the data which they do have).

But is this useful without having decided on a way to signal which blocks pruned nodes do have?

It looks like the part between paranthesis is speculation and should be left to a future BIP. 

Wladimir