<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1f2nvlx49er5c7sqa43src6ssyp6snd4qwvtkwm5avc2l84cs84esecrwet</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1f2nvlx49er5c7sqa43src6ssyp6snd4qwvtkwm5avc2l84cs84esecrwet</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2014-04-09&#xA;📝 Original message:On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Mark Friedenbach &lt;mark at monetize.io&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt; (2) there&#39;s a reasonable pathway to doing this all in-protocol, so there&#39;s&#xA;&gt; no reason to introduce external dependencies.&#xA;&#xA;Not just a speculative pathway. Pieter implemented headers first:&#xA;https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/tree/headersfirst  and it was&#xA;everything we hoped it would be— it easily can saturate residential&#xA;broadband, produces less load hot-spotting, copes with unreliable&#xA;peers, etc. It&#39;s now just slowly making its way into Bitcoin core.</html></oembed>