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Bitcoin Dev Archive 2015

request to use service bit 28 for testing

2 messages, 14 to 16 Nov 2015. Started by Peter Tschipper.

Peter Tschipper, Peter Todd

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Peter Tschipper permalink original

I'd like to use service bit 28 for testing the block compression prototype unless anyone has any objections or is using it already.

Thanks.

Peter Todd in reply to Peter Tschipper permalink original

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 03:27:49PM -0800, Peter Tschipper via bitcoin-dev wrote:

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> I'd like to use service bit 28 for testing the block compression
> prototype unless anyone has any objections or is using it already.

Go for it!

AFAIK the only testing service bit in use right now is bit 26, used to indicate full-RBF support by my replace-by-fee branch:

https://github.com/petertodd/bitcoin/tree/replace-by-fee-v0.11.2

Speaking of, you may find the preferential peering code in the above to be useful. It's a bit of a hack, but it does work.