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10 This package implements a concurrency safe block syncing protocol. The
11 SyncManager communicates with connected peers to perform an initial block
12 download, keep the chain and unconfirmed transaction pool in sync, and announce
13 new blocks connected to the chain. Currently the sync manager selects a single
14 sync peer that it downloads all blocks from until it is up to date with the
15 longest chain the sync peer is aware of.
17 ## Installation and Updating
20 $ go get -u github.com/btcsuite/btcd/netsync
25 Package netsync is licensed under the [copyfree](http://copyfree.org) ISC License.