PeernetOfficial / core

Core library. Use this to create a new Peernet application.
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Protocol change: Increase block height to 64-bit? #74

Closed Kleissner closed 2 years ago

Kleissner commented 2 years ago

Block height is currently 32-bit. Does it make sense to be future proof and support crazy peers that have more than 4 billion blocks?

From a file system standpoint this seems absurd. From a record perspective (assuming 1 block = 1 record, even though a block may store multiple records) 4 billion is not much.