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Title: [2016-06-07] Bitcoin’s Compact Block Relay is an Upgrade to Reduce Block’s Propa
Post by: mookid on June 07, 2016, 08:03:54 PM
Bitcoin Core, the open source project which maintains and releases Bitcoin client software, has fully embraced BIP152, a new upgrade that will reduce the amount of bandwidth used to propagate new blocks to full nodes. This will decrease the amount of time it takes for a block to propagate across the entire Bitcoin network.

http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/06/07/compact-block-relay-technique-improve-propagation-times-bitcoins-network/