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# Block Sync
## Channel
Block sync has one channel.
| Name | Number |
|-------------------|--------|
| BlockchainChannel | 64 |
## Message Types
There are multiple message types for Block Sync
### BlockRequest
BlockRequest asks a peer for a block at the height specified.
| Name | Type | Description | Field Number |
|--------|-------|---------------------------|--------------|
| Height | int64 | Height of requested block | 1 |
### NoBlockResponse
NoBlockResponse notifies the peer requesting a block that the node does not contain it.
| Name | Type | Description | Field Number |
|--------|-------|---------------------------|--------------|
| Height | int64 | Height of requested block | 1 |
### BlockResponse
BlockResponse contains the block requested.
| Name | Type | Description | Field Number |
|-------|----------------------------------------------|-----------------|--------------|
| Block | [Block](../../core/data_structures.md#block) | Requested Block | 1 |
### StatusRequest
StatusRequest is an empty message that notifies the peer to respond with the highest and lowest blocks it has stored.
> Empty message.
### StatusResponse
StatusResponse responds to a peer with the highest and lowest block stored.
| Name | Type | Description | Field Number |
|--------|-------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------|
| Height | int64 | Current Height of a node | 1 |
| base | int64 | First known block, if pruning is enabled it will be higher than 1 | 1 |
### Message
Message is a [`oneof` protobuf type](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto#oneof). The `oneof` consists of five messages.
| Name | Type | Description | Field Number |
|-------------------|----------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|--------------|
| block_request | [BlockRequest](#blockrequest) | Request a block from a peer | 1 |
| no_block_response | [NoBlockResponse](#noblockresponse) | Response saying it doe snot have the requested block | 2 |
| block_response | [BlockResponse](#blockresponse) | Response with requested block | 3 |
| status_request | [StatusRequest](#statusrequest) | Request the highest and lowest block numbers from a peer | 4 |
| status_response | [StatusResponse](#statusresponse) | Response with the highest and lowest block numbers the store | 5 |