From 40d705cb70efddee3568576ed1c88b0f89403e9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luke Dashjr Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 22:13:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] doc/release-notes: Mention the relevance of Compact Blocks on non-mining nodes' influence on network policy --- doc/release-notes.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 6c7385c98..23687eccc 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -119,6 +119,15 @@ cases it also reduces propagation delay. It is automatically enabled between compatible peers. [BIP 152](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0152.mediawiki) +As a side-effect, ordinary non-mining nodes will download and upload blocks +faster if those blocks were produced by miners using similar transaction +filtering policies. This means that a miner who produces a block with many +transactions discouraged by your node will be relayed slower than one with +only transactions already in your memory pool. The overall effect of such +relay differences on the network may result in blocks which include widely- +discouraged transactions losing a stale block race, and therefore miners may +wish to configure their node to take common relay policies into consideration. + Hierarchical Deterministic Key Generation -----------------------------------------