diff --git a/docs/emails/cryptography/15.md b/docs/emails/cryptography/15.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..947c275 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/emails/cryptography/15.md @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +--- +layout: default +title: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper +grand_parent: Emails +parent: Cryptography Mailing List +nav_order: 15 +--- + +# Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper + +The email on the Cryptography Mailing List that announced Bitcoin publicly to the world. +{: .fs-6 .fw-300 } + +--- + +``` +James A. Donald wrote: +> > Fortunately, it's only necessary to keep a +> > pending-transaction pool for the current best branch. +> +> This requires that we know, that is to say an honest +> well behaved peer whose communications and data storage +> is working well knows, what the current best branch is - + +I mean a node only needs the pending-tx pool for the best branch it +has. The branch that it currently thinks is the best branch. +That's the branch it'll be trying to make a block out of, which is +all it needs the pool for. + + +> > Broadcasts will probably be almost completely +> > reliable. +> +> Rather than assuming that each message arrives at least +> once, we have to make a mechanism such that the +> information arrives even though conveyed by messages +> that frequently fail to arrive. + +I think I've got the peer networking broadcast mechanism covered. + +Each node sends its neighbours an inventory list of hashes of the +new blocks and transactions it has. The neighbours request the +items they don't have yet. If the item never comes through after a +timeout, they request it from another neighbour that had it. Since +all or most of the neighbours should eventually have each item, +even if the coms get fumbled up with one, they can get it from any +of the others, trying one at a time. + +The inventory-request-data scheme introduces a little latency, but +it ultimately helps speed more by keeping extra data blocks off the +transmit queues and conserving bandwidth. + + +> You have an outline +> and proposal for such a design, which is a big step +> forward, but the devil is in the little details. + +I believe I've worked through all those little details over the +last year and a half while coding it, and there were a lot of them. +The functional details are not covered in the paper, but the +sourcecode is coming soon. I sent you the main files. +(available by request at the moment, full release soon) + +Satoshi Nakamoto + + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +The Cryptography Mailing List +Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo at metzdowd.com +```