Re: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper

Here's the last email from Satoshi just prior to releasing the full-version open source #bitcoin:

James A. Donald wrote: > > Fortunately, it's only necessary to keep a > > pending-transaction pool for the current best branch. > > This requires that we know, that is to say an honest > well behaved peer whose communications and data storage > is working well knows, what the current best branch is - I mean a node only needs the pending-tx pool for the best branch it has. The branch that it currently thinks is the best branch. That's the branch it'll be trying to make a block out of, which is all it needs the pool for. > > Broadcasts will probably be almost completely > > reliable. > > Rather than assuming that each message arrives at least > once, we have to make a mechanism such that the > information arrives even though conveyed by messages > that frequently fail to arrive. I think I've got the peer networking broadcast mechanism covered. Each node sends its neighbours ...

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