Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Removal of reject network messages from Bitcoin Core (BIP61)

From: Eric Voskuil <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 13:16:47 -0700

As this is a P2P protocol change it should be exposed as a version increment (and a BIP), not just as a conditional service. If the intent is to retain this protocol indefinitely, exposing it conditionally, then a service bit would make sense, but it remains a protocol change.

BIP61 is explicit:

“All implementations of the P2P protocol version 70,002 and later should support the reject message.“

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> On Oct 17, 2019, at 12:54, Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> On 16/10/2019 18.43, John Newbery via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> 
>> Following discussion on this mailing list, support for BIP 61 REJECT
>> messages was not removed from Bitcoin Core in V0.19. The behaviour in
>> that upcoming release is that REJECT messages are disabled by default
>> and can be enabled using the `-enablebip61` command line option.
> 
> Is there a NODE_* bit we can use to pick peers that support this
> (useful!) feature?
> 
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