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Re: Thanks to people who support 1-2 MB blocks - great idea u fools...
by
RoadTrain
on 17/09/2015, 16:45:50 UTC
Sorry I should add this precision: Broadcasting a transaction to a node that has already received this transaction.

In other word, inefficiencies.
I'm not sure what you are talking about. Do you mean that if a node sees a new transaction or block, it immediately relays it to other peers?
As far as I'm aware that's not quite true. The only thing a node does when receiving new tx/block is send an inv message containing its hash. After that, a peer can request a tx/block using a getdata message if it doesn't already have it.
A node receives tx only when it asks for it.