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Chainweb: A Proof-of-Work Parallel-Chain Architecture for Massive Throughput
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Data structure for local BlockHeader metadata #109

Open mercadoa opened 5 years ago

mercadoa commented 5 years ago

Some operations require to store local meta-data about block headers.

For instance, for efficient synchronization it is needed to track the origin of block headers which have missing dependencies. Those can be store temporarily in a "staging" area, while missing dependencies are queried from their origin. This information can also be used to track sources of block headers that fail payload validation. Other useful information may include when a block header was first received, added to the database, and passed payload validation.

mercadoa commented 5 years ago

Moved issue over to chainweb-node (109)