<div dir="ltr">It's not a bug (although there was recently a change to make bitcoind/qt always send this field anyway). <div><br></div><div style>I don't know where Amir is going with BIP 60. Version messages have always been variable length. There's nothing inherent in the Bitcoin protocol that says all messages are fixed length, indeed, tx messages are allowed to have arbitrary data appended after them that gets relayed.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Turkey Breast <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:turkeybreast@yahoo.com" target="_blank">turkeybreast@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div>See this BIP. I'm not sure if this is a bug or what, but it would be good if messages always had a fixed number of fields per protocol version.</div>
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