{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub13djtar0ukxtnpan5lkcpd8mhyvt6v20cm5acmyjaxs4qyuamkdas9hzq3z","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub13djtar0ukxtnpan5lkcpd8mhyvt6v20cm5acmyjaxs4qyuamkdas9hzq3z","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-05-26\n📝 Original message:Is there any work being done on using some kind of zero-conf service\ndiscovery protocol so that lightweight clients can find a full node on the\nsame LAN to peer with rather than having to tie up WAN bandwidth?\n\nI envision a future where lightweight devices within a home use SPV over\nWiFi to connect with a home server which in turn relays the transactions\nthey create out to the larger and faster relays on the Internet.\n\nIn a situation where there are hundreds or thousands of small SPV devices\nin a single home (if 21, Inc. is successful) monitoring the blockchain,\nthis could result in lower traffic across the slow WAN connection.  And\nyes, I realize it could potentially take a LOT of these devices before the\ntotal bandwidth is greater than downloading a full copy of the blockchain,\nbut there's other reasons to host your own full node -- trust being one.\n\n--\n*James G. Phillips IV*\n\u003chttps://plus.google.com/u/0/113107039501292625391/posts\u003e\n\u003chttp://www.linkedin.com/in/ergophobe\u003e\n\n*\"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.\"\n-- David Ogilvy*\n\n *This message was created with 100% recycled electrons. Please think twice\nbefore printing.*\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150525/1f012536/attachment.html\u003e"}