From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Chris Priest <cp368202@ohiou•edu>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] A Better MMR Definition
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:19:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170223181929.GA6268@savin.petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAcC9ys5sUxVfOjogFiF3gzk51D_L=QQkOYevTH=qbh_RkA3Hw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 09:53:58AM -0800, Chris Priest wrote:
> On 2/22/17, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Reposting something that came up recently in a private discussion with some
> > academics:
> >
> > Concretely, let's define a prunable MMR with the following grammar. This
> > definition is an improvement on whats in the python-proofmarshal by
> > committing
> > to the number of items in the tree implicitly; an obvious max-log2(n)-sized
> > proof-of-tree-size can be obtained by following the right-most nodes:
>
> What problem does this try to solve, and what does it have to do with bitcoin?
See the discussion on TXO commitments for how MMR's could be used; a better MMR
makes for a better TXO commitment.
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-23 1:15 Peter Todd
2017-02-23 3:07 ` Bram Cohen
2017-02-23 7:41 ` Peter Todd
2017-02-23 17:53 ` Chris Priest
2017-02-23 18:19 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2017-02-23 18:28 ` G. Andrew Stone
2017-02-23 18:31 ` Peter Todd
2017-02-23 23:13 ` Bram Cohen
2017-02-23 23:51 ` Peter Todd
2017-02-24 0:49 ` Bram Cohen
2017-02-24 1:09 ` Peter Todd
2017-02-24 2:50 ` Bram Cohen
2017-02-24 2:58 ` Peter Todd
2017-02-24 3:02 ` Bram Cohen
2017-02-24 3:15 ` Peter Todd
2017-02-24 3:32 ` Bram Cohen
2017-02-24 4:36 ` Peter Todd
2017-02-24 22:20 ` Bram Cohen
2017-02-25 4:12 ` Peter Todd
2017-02-25 6:23 ` Bram Cohen
2017-02-28 16:43 ` G. Andrew Stone
2017-02-28 23:10 ` Bram Cohen
2017-02-28 23:24 ` Pieter Wuille
2017-03-01 1:47 ` Bram Cohen
2017-03-01 1:56 ` Peter Todd
2017-03-01 22:31 ` Peter Todd
2017-03-31 20:38 ` Bram Cohen
2017-04-01 10:18 ` praxeology_guy
2017-04-01 19:46 ` praxeology_guy
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