On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 6:10 PM, praxeology_guy via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

With using the MMR data structure for txo commitments, its preferable that wallets only keep information pertinent to their own spendable coins.  In previous communication we talked about how wallets could maintain the changing MMR proof for their old coins.  Yes wallets know which of their own coins are spent.  But with MMR proofs wallets also need to know the spentness status of close relatives in the MMR tree... in order to construct a valid MMR proof that their own coin is not spent.

Did you read the post that I made about the TXO bitfield yesterday? That gives what I believe is a much better way of handling this whole issue, allowing wallets to keep track of nothing other than the proof of position of their txo, which never changes.