From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr•org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org, Peter <dizzle@pointbiz•com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core to disable Bloom-based Filtering by default
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 21:17:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201907222117.30564.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADsWqbvFFg=GpO3FRpMhJP+2YtF9Qf3Gj+MSJcy=6QRSC6AqAg@mail.gmail.com>
On Monday 22 July 2019 18:52:10 Peter via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Privacy is a matter of individual choice in the current protocol. Why not
> let people provide this network service? I don't see why it should be
> end-of-life if it provides value.
It's not EOL, just disabled by default. Anyone can provide it by choice.
Same as with Stratum/Electrum right now (except easier to enable).
> I believe there's a network security obtained by having a large quantity of
> people following the Bitcoin headers based on longest weighted chain. As a
> means of nullifying potential miner initiated hard forks (like S2X).
This is incorrect. Such wallets strictly degrade security, as they are blindly
trusting miners. They make the network more VULNERABLE to 2X-like attacks.
Luke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-22 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-22 18:52 Peter
2019-07-22 20:42 ` Greg Sanders
2019-07-22 21:17 ` Luke Dashjr [this message]
2019-07-23 20:36 ` Peter Todd
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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
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
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