Version 2 P2P transport

Also covering BIP151

Version 2 (v2) P2P transport is a proposal to allow Bitcoin nodes to communicate with each other over encrypted connections.

Some other changes to the communication protocol are also suggested, such as allowing frequently-used protocol commands to be aliased to shorted byte sequences to reduce bandwidth.

This proposal replaces the earlier BIP151 proposal.

Primary code and documentation

• v2 Transport Protocol proposed BIP

Optech newsletter and website mentions

• 2019-06-12 CoreDev.tech discussion of v2 P2P transport proposal
• 2019-03-26 Announcement of v2 P2P transport proposal
• 2018-09-11 Criticism and defense of BIP151 choices
• 2018-08-28 PR opened for initial BIP151 support
• 2018-08-21 Continuing work on P2P protocol encryption

See also

• BIP151

• Countersign: a secret authentication protocol

  
  

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