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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: do miners zip blocks when trying to propagate them?
by
Soros Shorts
on 10/09/2015, 09:04:09 UTC
However, the Corallo Relay Network does support a sort of compression.  Rather than transmitting all the transactions in a solved blocks, since most the other miners know about them already, it just transmits indices that refer to each transaction (sort of like a map for how the TXs fit in the block).

I think a more appropriate term for this would be encoding - using codes to represent larger blocks of information that is already known by all parties. This is usually way more effective than blind data compression.