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rm some altcoin language from main docs
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docs/protocol-basics.rst

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verify the chain of hashes and header difficulty in order to confirm
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the merkle roots with which to check transaction inclusion.
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With the BTC and BCH chains now past height 500,000, the headers form
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With the Bitcoin main chain now past height 500,000, the headers form
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over 40MB of raw data which becomes 80MB if downloaded as text from
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Electrum servers. The situation is worse for testnet and coins with
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more frequent blocks. Downloading and verifying all this data on

docs/protocol-ideas.rst

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not implemented and it is likely they will change and that protocol 2.0 will be
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.. note:: This doc is not kept up-to-date, and does not reflect the current thinking of what
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future protocol versions will look like. Several newer related and unrelated ideas
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This protocol version makes changes intended to allow clients and servers to more easily
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scale to support queries about busy addresses. It has changes to reduce the amount of
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round-trip queries made in common usage, and to make results more compact to reduce

docs/protocol-methods.rst

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**Example Result**
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With *height* 5 and *cp_height* 0 on the Bitcoin Cash chain:
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The estimated transaction fee in coin units per kilobyte, as a
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floating point number. If the daemon does not have enough
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daemon returns when asked for a verbose form of the raw
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transaction.
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The result is a bitcoind-specific dictionary -- whatever bitcoind
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