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From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr•org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org,
	Ethan Scruples <ethan.scruples@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] assumeutxo and UTXO snapshots
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 02:48:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201904040248.34162.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACiOHGxxqm5Qn8J9u5oDE5Ek5smqB4E4iz4PJOZHpJO5kwP=-A@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday 03 April 2019 15:39:29 Ethan Scruples via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> If we can get mandatory UTXO commitments soft forked into Bitcoin, we get
> the advantage of a non-growing IBD,

No, we don't. This is exactly the danger. UTXO snapshots are NOT an 
alternative to a real IBD. There are HUGE security implications for this. 
Frankly, the danger that someone would do such a thing is itself a good 
reason not to ever add UTXO commitments.

Luke


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-04  2:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-02 20:43 James O'Beirne
2019-04-03  6:37 ` Jonas Schnelli
2019-04-03 15:39   ` Ethan Scruples
2019-04-03 21:39     ` Dave Scotese
2019-04-04  3:01       ` Luke Dashjr
2019-04-04  5:59         ` Jim Posen
2019-04-04 14:36           ` James O'Beirne
2019-04-13 19:09       ` Peter Todd
2019-04-15  0:44         ` Dave Scotese
2019-04-04  2:48     ` Luke Dashjr [this message]
2019-04-04  3:04       ` Ethan Scruples
2019-04-03 19:51   ` James O'Beirne
2019-04-03  9:55 ` Luke Dashjr
2019-04-03 23:03 ` Jim Posen
2019-04-14 13:16 ` Omar Shibli
2019-04-23 14:17 ` James O'Beirne
     [not found] <mailman.2593.1554248572.29810.bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
2019-04-03  7:51 ` Nicolas Dorier
2019-04-04 10:27   ` Kulpreet Singh

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