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From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr•org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org,
	Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach•de>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core to disable Bloom-based Filtering by default
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 03:04:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201907250304.27179.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qh76ln$41ag$1@blaine.gmane.org>

On Tuesday 23 July 2019 14:47:18 Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > the DNS seed infrastructure among others can easily direct
> > wallets to those nodes
>
> Last I checked none of the seeds did. But I agree this would be nice to
> have.

It's supported by default in sipa's bitcoin-seeder, which many DNS seeds use.

My seed also currently requires NODE_BLOOM for *any* answers returned.
(But I don't guarantee that will remain forever.)

> As a side note, Coinbase just announced their 30M'th wallet. I'm
> convinced this massive run into custodial wallets...

Light wallets are just as bad for the network as custodial wallets.

> IMHO, BIP 37 is the only scaling technology that has proven successful and
> could – if supported and improved rather than choked – continue to help
> holding against the bitbanks trend.

Light wallets are not Bitcoin scaling. They are just trusting anonymous 3rd 
parties, which is harmful to Bitcoin.

Luke


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-25  3:05 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
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 [this message]
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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