From: Bram Cohen <bram@bittorrent•com>
To: bfd@cock•lu,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] A Commitment-suitable UTXO set "Balances" file data structure
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 19:07:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+KqGkpQ6HONO6VXEPDqH9MrsRGT+3=fj=b5WFdBoVkz2Vr7Qg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a7381ffeceb2209dda11928de10fa12@cock.lu>
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On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 5:55 PM, bfd--- via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Having a commitment to a "balance" of an "address" (I assume you mean
> P2SH/P2PKH script) is extremely expensive to create and validate, does
> not scale and is not a particularly useful thing for a client to use.
>
The benefit of this sort of infrequent utxo commitment is that it would
allow a new client to download just the contents of the utxo set and not
have to get the entire blockchain history, which is much larger.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-08 3:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-07 21:28 praxeology_guy
2017-03-08 1:55 ` Bram Cohen
2017-03-08 1:55 ` bfd
2017-03-08 3:07 ` Bram Cohen [this message]
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