From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach•de>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core to disable Bloom-based Filtering by default
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 04:32:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190722083215.toetpsrefpjovgbw@petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qh2qj1$7sg4$1@blaine.gmane.org>
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On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 12:56:33AM +0200, Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> An estimated 10+ million wallets depend on that NODE_BLOOM to be
> updated. So far, I haven't heard of an alternative, except reading all
> transactions and full blocks.
Can you specify exactly which wallets those are?
Secondly, this doesn't stop people from running NODE_BLOOM nodes, and the DNS
seed infrastructure among others can easily direct wallets to those nodes. This
is of course not very secure, but bloom filters have never been very secure.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-22 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-20 17:46 Matt Corallo
2019-07-21 22:56 ` Andreas Schildbach
2019-07-22 5:01 ` Matt Corallo
2019-07-22 15:58 ` Justus Ranvier
2019-07-26 7:45 ` Tamas Blummer
2019-07-22 8:32 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2019-07-22 13:25 ` Jonas Schnelli
2019-07-22 17:17 ` Luke Dashjr
2019-07-22 17:26 ` Luke Dashjr
2019-07-23 14:47 ` Andreas Schildbach
2019-07-24 13:11 ` Justus Ranvier
2019-07-25 3:04 ` Luke Dashjr
2019-07-26 10:04 ` Jonas Schnelli
2019-07-27 16:10 ` Matt Corallo
2019-07-26 16:48 ` Chris
2019-07-27 19:19 ` Luke Dashjr
2019-07-22 15:04 ` Tom Harding
2019-07-22 15:15 ` Dustin Dettmer
[not found] ` <FF0175BF-1D1F-4AD4-9B13-99D522DBCD83@bridge21.com>
2019-08-14 15:07 ` Matt Corallo
2019-07-22 18:52 Peter
2019-07-22 20:42 ` Greg Sanders
2019-07-22 21:17 ` Luke Dashjr
2019-07-23 20:36 ` Peter Todd
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