Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] assumeutxo and UTXO snapshots

From: Luke Dashjr <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 02:48:33 +0000

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