From: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: allocate 8 service bits for experimental use
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 12:23:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+s+GJBw84dxc7pvJef-c=m7Dj0Cjy=O4PjNKB=5Bt2spM83OA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140617072351.GA7205@savin>
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org> wrote:
> For my replace-by-fee implementation(1) I used service bit 26 to let
> preferential peering work so that replace-by-fee nodes could easily find
> each other. Of course, that's a temporary/experimental usage that can be
> dropped after wider adoption, so I included the following comment:
>
> // Reserve 24-31 for temporary experiments
> NODE_REPLACE_BY_FEE = (1 << 26)
>
> Service bits are never a guaranteed thing anyway, so occasional
> collisions can and should be tolerated by applications using these
> experimental service bits.
Anyhow -- back to the original proposal. I'm fine with setting aside
part of the service bit space for experiments.
Wladimir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-18 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-17 7:23 Peter Todd
2014-06-17 7:57 ` Wladimir
2014-06-17 8:02 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-06-17 8:08 ` Wladimir
2014-06-17 8:16 ` Wladimir
2014-06-17 21:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-06-18 6:20 ` Wladimir
2014-06-18 10:23 ` Wladimir [this message]
2014-06-18 11:48 ` Jeff Garzik
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