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author | Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com> | 2014-07-12 00:02:35 +0200 |
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committer | Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com> | 2014-10-14 15:42:01 -0700 |
commit | 341735eb8f42e898cf9d4d130709471e5d01abe2 (patch) | |
tree | 7986b1d3056a776e3423d75353b3282a99edbd44 /.gitattributes | |
parent | 992ab87114b8c9ea8230e97a9c8d8bd71939074d (diff) | |
download | bitcoin-341735eb8f42e898cf9d4d130709471e5d01abe2.tar.xz |
Headers-first synchronization
Many changes:
* Do not use 'getblocks', but 'getheaders', and use it to build a headers tree.
* Blocks are fetched in parallel from all available outbound peers, using a
limited moving window. When one peer stalls the movement of the window, it is
disconnected.
* No more orphan blocks. At all. We only ever request a block for which we have
verified the headers, and store it to disk immediately. This means that a
disk-fill attack would require PoW.
* Require protocol version 31800 for every peer (released in december 2010).
* No more syncnode (we sync from everyone we can, though limited to 1 during
initial *headers* sync).
* Introduce some extra named constants, comments and asserts.
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