I noticed that the Monero chain compresses about 60%, would it be possible to compress blocks before sending them from a remote node to a syncing wallet thus saving a big chunk of bandwidth and time?

Does anyone know if this is already happening during sync, or if not why?

edit: this can be done using ssh tunnels, if you have ssh access to your remote server. The “-C” option enables compression.

ssh -C -NL 18089:localhost:18089 server_username@server_address

Now you can set your wallet to 127.0.0.1:18089 and now your wallet syncing should be faster, enjoy!

  • mister_monster@monero.townEnglish
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    8 months ago

    So you’ve got 2 components to sync time, bandwidth and processing. In Monero we already have to attempt to decrypt transactions in each block to see if it’s ours. This is what really takes time with regard to syncing.

    If you compressed blocks, you’d save some bandwidth, but you’d take time client side to uncompress before sync. This adds to sync time. A user with high processing power using a node with low bandwidth might see a benefit, but for most people the bottleneck isn’t bandwidth, it’s processing power. Most people wouldn’t see a sync time improvement with your proposed scheme.