Remove transaction count from packed block

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Remove transaction count from packed block #8

Closed zouppen closed 10 years ago

zouppen commented 10 years ago

Blocks containing fixed-width hashes instead of full transactions may safely be packed right after header without length indicator because the count can be inferred from message length:

tx_count = (block_length - block_header_size) / SHA256_DIGEST_LENGTH