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David A. Harding
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Dev Docs: Document Blocks-First IBD & Orphan Blocks
This commit provides a detailed overview of the current block download
method, which I've retroactively named blocks-first for parallelism with
headers-first.

New And Significantly Revised:

* New Initial Block Download (IBD) section (h3) with Blocks-First
  subsection (h4)

* New Orphan Block subsection (under Blocks Broadcasting) describing
  orphan blocks and how they're handled under blocks-first. Also
  includes a simple illustration of the difference between orphan blocks
  and stale blocks. Thanks to luke-jr for his s/orphan block/stale
  block/ commit a couple months ago---that made this commit much easier.

Edits:

* Cleaned up a couple cases missed by previous s/orphan/stale/ commit
  because they used past tense (orphaned).

* In P2P reference section, mentioned that a `block` message can be sent
  unsolicited by miners.

* Mention that `getheaders` and `headers` were added in protocol
  version 31800.

* Moved a few internal links around and added a few new internal links.

Administrivia:

* Started adding "TODOv0.10" in HTML comments to places that need to be
  updated when 0.10 is released so that I can easily git grep for that
  tag later.
2015-01-31 15:48:16 -05:00
David A. Harding
968d9c1f64
Describe Uncompressed And Compressed Public Keys
A quick little subsection the two different public key formats possible
in Bitcoin.
2014-06-09 22:16:31 -04:00
saivann
46780d3177 Contributions by @saivann to devel docs
Thanks also (in alphabetical order) to @cbeams, @mikehearn, and
@tgeller, among others.

The last pre-squash commit was: c2b8d562aa107c7b68c60946cea14cdccc5159ad
2014-05-09 22:13:59 -04:00