Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Why are we bleeding nodes?

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 15:17:46 -0400

Yes, i spec'd out the UDP traversal of the P2P protocol.  It seems
reasonable especially for "inv" messages.

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Andy Alness <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Has there ever been serious discussion on extending the protocol to
> support UDP transport? That would allow for NAT traversal and for many
> more people to run effective nodes. I'm also curious if it could be
> made improve block propagation time.
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Gmail <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Unlikely. I doubt any significant portion of miners in china will continue to mine on a china-specific chain, since it will certainly be outmined by non-Chinese miners, and will be orphaned eventually.
>>
>> More likely is that mining interests in china will make special arrangements to circumvent the GFwOC.
>>
>> Users who can't access the worldwide blockchain will notice horrendously slow confirmation times and other side effects.
>>
>>> On May 20, 2014, at 10:37, Eugen Leitl <[email-masked]>
>>>
>>> Could a blockchain fork due to network split happen?
>>>
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