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gavinandresen / BlockPropagation.md
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O(1) block propagation

O(1) Block Propagation

The problem

Bitcoin miners want their newly-found blocks to propagate across the network as quickly as possible, because every millisecond of delay increases the chances that another block, found at about the same time, wins the "block race."

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spikebike / client.go
Created March 29, 2012 01:13
TLS server and client
package main
import (
"crypto/tls"
"crypto/x509"
"fmt"
"io"
"log"
)