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<div>Hi all,</div>
<div>I have a couple of ideas regarding transaction relay protocol and wanted to share it with and probably get some feedback.</div>
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<div>I did some emulation and simulation and found out that around 90% of INV messages sent by public-IP nodes are idle (duplicate), obviously because each node creates 8 connections.  I also realized that sending INV messages is a significant part of the overall bandwidth consumed by a public-IP node. At a larger scale, this will result in people not able to run a public-IP node.</div>
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<div>My idea is in some sense similar to BIP37 but applied to public-IP nodes. Here I want to emphasize that all the nodes will still receive *all* of the transactions. A new protocol should also keep the same zero-trust, robustness, decentralization guarantees and latency.</div>
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<div>Idea: while joining the network, a new node agrees on some filter with each of 8 nodes it connects to. So that NewNode <-> Node_A will be used to relay only a subset of transactions, NewNode <-> Node_B for another subset. This will significantly decrease the redundancy.</div>
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<div>To keep the guarantees, I would keep some redundancy (for example, each transaction INV is sent over 2 links).</div>
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<div>To make it robust to attacks, I have 2 extensions in my mind: </div>
<div>1. Set reconciliation (for a subset of transactions) with *other* nodes. Getting a bloom filter of a subset of the mempool transactions from Node_B may help to figure out whether Node_A is malicious, very slow, etc.</div>
<div>2. Rotating the filters every N minutes (N < 10)</div>
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<div>I can see some issues with latency here, but I believe this problem has a solution.</div>
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<div>Feedback is appreciated!</div>
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<div>If you want to look at a draft of the proposal — please let me know.</div>
<div>If there were any similar ideas — please let me know.</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Gleb</div>
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