Subject: Re: [bitcoindev] Proposal to upgrade the transaction relay protocol to a new version

From: Peter Todd <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 10:49:52 +0000

On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 03:49:55PM -0700, Antoine Riard wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> Opened a BIP draft proposing to introduce an upgrade of the transaction 
> relay protocol by introducing a new node bit service:
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1663
> 
> For the movitations, see this old email thread from 2021:
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-February/018391.html

Your BIP is really incomplete without a discussion of what clients make use of
unannounced tx messages, their goals for doing it, and how they are expected to
achieve those goals once all nodes discontinue unannounced tx messages.

It seems to me that implementing wallets with good UX could become a lot more
difficult if this change results in it taking significantly longer for a tx to
be broadcast. I don't know if it will. But you need to address this issue.

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