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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. |
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