[Blocks-development] Reducing broadcast messages to ~5bytes

[Blat F. <pet...@ho...>]

Ive just had a brainstorm myself. We might be able to
reduce the size of duplicate broadcast messages to
5 bytes or so.

Instead of simply sending broadcast messages to all
connections, and ignoring messages received which are
duplicates of recent messages, we could 'ask' the servers
we're connected to if they would like to receive the
message by sending them just the message ID... in fact
a portion of the messade ID might do (say 4 or 8 bytes),
effectively eliminating any duplicate broadcast messages
throught the entire Blocknet. This would seem to offer
near-optimal broadcast routing.

Comments?

ttfn

PG.

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