From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr•org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org,
"Алексей Мутовкин" <alex.mutovkin@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Fwd: Proposal of a new BIP : annual splitting blockchain database to reduce its size.
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 18:33:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201708161833.48897.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEadUT+oty3vU0LOMMoOdy7yNF92q+rgGbtV-AgjO8PGknZ+gg@mail.gmail.com>
To have a BIP, you need to explain not only *why* you want to do something,
but also *what specifically* to do, and *how* to do it. This concept
(historically known as "flip the chain" and/or "UTXO commitments") is not new,
merely complicated to design and implement.
Luke
On Wednesday 16 August 2017 4:20:45 PM Алексей Мутовкин via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Let me describe the possible improvement of the bitcoin blockchain database
> (BBD) size in general terms.
>
> We can implement new routine : annual split of the BBD. Reason is that
> 140gb full wallet unconvinience.
>
> BBD splits in two parts :
> 1) old blocks before the date of split and
> 2) new blocks, starting from first technical block with all rolled totals
> on the date of split.
> (also possible transfer of tiny totals due to their unprofitability to
> the miners, so we cut long tail of tiny holders)
> 3) old blocks packs into annual megablocks and stores in the side archive
> chain for some needs for FBI investigations or other goals.
>
>
> Thanks for your attention,
>
> Alexey Mutovkin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-16 18:34 UTC|newest]
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2017-08-16 16:20 ` Алексей Мутовкин
2017-08-16 16:52 ` Nick ODell
2017-08-16 17:37 ` Алексей Мутовкин
2017-08-16 18:33 ` Luke Dashjr [this message]
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