Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] The Bitcoin Node Market

From: devrandom <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 08:52:45 -0700

On 2015-06-16 12:55 AM, Aaron Voisine wrote:
>> Suppose a billion mobile phones wanted to run SPV wallets tomorrow. Who
>> would provide the nodes they would need connect to? 
> 
> The SPV wallet author would if they wanted their wallet to function.

I would also guess that the cost to provide service to SPV wallets is
less than $0.01/mo per wallet and in any case less than long-term
transaction fees.  This can either be taken up by the wallet author or
transparently through a payment channel by the user.

> 
> 
> Aaron Voisine
> co-founder and CEO
> breadwallet.com <http://breadwallet.com>

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devrandom / Miron