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From: Simon Barber <simon@superduper•net>
To: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail•com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Service bits for pruned nodes
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:31:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51801C1A.7080805@superduper.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201304302027.10247.andyparkins@gmail.com>

And then the problem of what domain name to use - ideally a single name 
would be used so caches had the maximum chance to reuse content. To 
keep the network distributed perhaps the existing DNS seed mechanism 
could be used - a few names, each serving a random bitcoind's address. 
Put :8333 after the name, and enhance bitcoind to respond to HTTP and 
p2p caching would be used!

Simon


On Tue 30 Apr 2013 12:27:10 PM PDT, Andy Parkins wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 April 2013 19:04:59 Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>> The format currently used by bitcoind would be just fine --
>> blocks/blkNNNN.dat for raw data, size-limited well below 1GB.  Just
>> need to add a small metadata download, and serve the raw block files.
>
> That doesn't seem very generic.  It's tied far too much to the current storage
> format of bitcoind.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to add support for more bitcoin-protocol-oriented HTTP
> requests?  Then any client can supply the same interface, rather than being
> forced to create blkNNNN.dat on the fly?
>
>   http://bitcoind.example.com/block/BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
>   http://bitcoind.example.com/tx/TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
>   http://bitcoind.example.com/block/oftx/TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
>   http://bitcoind.example.com/peers
>   http://bitcoind.example.com/peer/nnn
>
> Essentially: block explorer's raw mode but in every bitcoind.  The hardest
> operation for light clients is finding out the block that contains a
> particular transaction -- something that bitcoind already knows.
>
> I'd like to see support for HTTP POST/PUT of signed transactions and block
> announcements too.
>
>
>
> Andy
>



  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-30 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-28 15:51 [Bitcoin-development] " Pieter Wuille
2013-04-28 16:29 ` Mike Hearn
2013-04-28 16:44   ` Pieter Wuille
2013-04-28 16:57     ` Mike Hearn
2013-05-03 12:30       ` Pieter Wuille
2013-05-03 14:06         ` Mike Hearn
2013-05-03 14:18           ` Peter Todd
2013-05-03 15:02             ` Mike Hearn
2013-05-03 15:11               ` Peter Todd
2013-05-04 18:07                 ` John Dillon
2013-05-04 18:55                   ` Jeff Garzik
2013-05-05 13:12                     ` John Dillon
2013-05-06  8:19                       ` Mike Hearn
2013-05-06 13:13                         ` Pieter Wuille
2013-04-28 19:50   ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-04-29  2:57     ` John Dillon
2013-04-29  3:36       ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-04-29  3:42         ` Robert Backhaus
2013-04-29  3:48         ` John Dillon
2013-04-29  3:55           ` Peter Todd
2013-04-29  6:10             ` Jay F
     [not found]               ` <CAFBxzACw=G7UgG853zQrM-Z1-B4VqSQR5YUJQ5n1=wnv7EyWsw@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-30 16:14                 ` [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: " Rebroad (sourceforge)
2013-04-30 18:04                   ` Jeff Garzik
2013-04-30 19:27                     ` Andy Parkins
2013-04-30 19:31                       ` Simon Barber [this message]
2013-04-30 20:11                       ` Jeff Garzik
2013-05-01 14:05                         ` Andy Parkins
2013-05-01 14:26                           ` Jeff Garzik
2013-05-01 14:34                             ` Andy Parkins
2013-04-30 20:06                     ` [Bitcoin-development] " Brenton Camac
2013-05-01 13:46 ` Jeff Garzik

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