Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] A suggestion for reducing the size of the UTXO database

From: "Warren Togami Jr." <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 14:14:46 -0700

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Andreas Schildbach
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> Yes, that's the issue. Because you're connecting only to one node, you
> don't get any instant confirmations -- due to a Bitcoin protocol
> limitation you can only get them from nodes you don't post the tx to.

Is it really wise to call this a "confirmation"?  All this is really
telling you is one seemingly random peer has relayed the transaction
back to you that you sent to a presumably different seemingly random
peer.

Warren