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Suhas Daftuar

Author of 4 BIPs.

  • BIP 90: Buried Deployments: Deployed. Simplifies how Bitcoin software enforces three older soft forks (BIP 34, 65 and 66) by hard-coding the block heights at which they took effect, instead of re-checking how miners voted. Since those…
  • BIP 130: sendheaders message: Deployed. Adds a message by which a node asks its peers to announce new blocks by sending the block headers directly instead of a short notice to request later. This saves a round of messages and helps new…
  • BIP 338: Disable transaction relay message: Closed. Adds a message letting a node tell a peer that their connection will not be used for transaction relay, only for blocks. This supports block-relay-only connections, which help protect nodes against…
  • BIP 339: WTXID-based transaction relay: Deployed. Nodes share new transactions by announcing short identifiers, and this change lets them use the "wtxid", an identifier that also covers a transaction's SegWit signature data. The older identifier…