Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] request BIP number for: "Support for Datastream Compression"

From: Johnathan Corgan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 21:40:13 -0800

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 5:58 PM, gladoscc via bitcoin-dev <
[email-masked]> wrote:

> I think 25% bandwidth savings is certainly considerable, especially for
> people running full nodes in countries like Australia where internet
> bandwidth is lower and there are data caps.
>

​This reinforces the idea that such trade-off decisions should be be local
and negotiated between peers, not a required feature of the network P2P.​

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Johnathan Corgan
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