From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
To: "Bjørn Øivind Bjørnsen" <bo.bjornsen@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] About the small number of bitcoin nodes
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 14:28:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP1h1YL9NaFKLdnq-dmAn_vz=ubs3BuUnn2mE7Zi6n_53w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5379F803.40509@gmail.com>
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> Does this mean that you can currently actively hurt the network by
> adding a node with a very slow upstream / downstream?
Well, I guess "hurting" the network is perhaps a bit dramatic. There are
already lots of ways the download process can go wrong and take days. Using
the torrent is much faster. But my understanding is that this will slow
down the bootstrap process for some people yes. Remote peers won't try and
download in parallel or anything like that.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-19 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-18 17:43 Raúl Martínez
2014-05-18 20:15 ` Raúl Martínez
2014-05-19 7:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-05-19 7:25 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-05-19 14:02 ` Scott Howard
2014-05-19 8:48 ` Wladimir
2014-05-19 10:39 ` Wladimir
2014-05-19 10:47 ` Felipe Micaroni Lalli
2014-05-19 9:26 ` Bjørn Øivind Bjørnsen
2014-05-19 12:15 ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-19 12:24 ` Bjørn Øivind Bjørnsen
2014-05-19 12:28 ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2014-05-19 12:44 ` Wladimir
2014-05-19 12:53 ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-30 10:16 ` Wladimir
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