Folks, lets take time to show some appreciation to ABC team. They quickly subverted an attack on BCH today. Show them our support. Here is their address bitcoincash:qqeht8vnwag20yv8dvtcrd4ujx09fwxwsqqqw93w88
What does the BTC transactions traffic represent? Are they mostly inter-exchange transfers or something else? If they are inter-exchange transfers, confirmation times must be painful to the trades. What else is it?
With canonical-ordering, can we precompute all possible Merkle hashes for txs in mempool? Is space complexity okay? Can we strip out non-coinbase txs from block propagation, if miners reject blocks with non-p2p txs?
A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.