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blocklocator.go
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// Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Conformal Systems LLC.
// Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
package blockchain
import (
"github.com/FactomProject/btcd/wire"
)
// BlockLocator is used to help locate a specific block. The algorithm for
// building the block locator is to add the hashes in reverse order until
// the genesis block is reached. In order to keep the list of locator hashes
// to a reasonable number of entries, first the most recent previous 10 block
// hashes are added, then the step is doubled each loop iteration to
// exponentially decrease the number of hashes as a function of the distance
// from the block being located.
//
// For example, assume you have a block chain with a side chain as depicted
// below:
// genesis -> 1 -> 2 -> ... -> 15 -> 16 -> 17 -> 18
// \-> 16a -> 17a
//
// The block locator for block 17a would be the hashes of blocks:
// [17a 16a 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 6 2 genesis]
type BlockLocator []*wire.ShaHash