Can we shave 60% off of wallet sync times by compressing blocks from remote nodes? (monero.town)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by tusker@monero.town to c/monero@monero.town

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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!

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[-] tusker@monero.town 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks for the info. I am sure a check could be put in place to determine if the syncing wallet is local or remote and compression enabled accordingly. If not a manual option can be put in place where the user can specify if they want compression enabled.

As blocks continue to grow due to increasing TX counts this feature will become a huge benefit.