From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
To: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] HTTP REST API for bitcoind
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 12:06:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPg+sBhPLP6o7w4iJCFqkHaoonge5FxwTrMm1UiO_=SWsbpW+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201307231102.06693.andyparkins@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail•com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 July 2013 10:56:02 Pieter Wuille wrote:
>
>> The block chain is not involved at all to verify transactions, it's
>> just a historical
>> record to serve to other nodes, and to do wallet rescans with.
>
> It must be involved to some extent. Certainly during a temporary fork, there
> are two branches growing, and you have to be able, when verifying a new
> transaction, to say which branch it's one... which branch of the blockchain.
No, not really.
The UTXO set is the state you need to validate blocks and
transactions. You can see blocks as authenticated patches to the UTXO
set (consumes some outputs, produces others). During validation, we
store "undo data", basically (non-authenticated) reverse patches to
the UTXO set, so we can walk back in case of a reorganization.
--
Pieter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-23 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-22 19:42 Jeff Garzik
2013-07-22 22:06 ` Michael Hendricks
2013-07-23 8:27 ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-07-23 8:45 ` Michael Gronager
2013-07-23 9:37 ` Pieter Wuille
2013-07-23 9:53 ` Michael Gronager
2013-07-23 10:17 ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-07-23 10:27 ` Pieter Wuille
2013-07-23 9:30 ` Andy Parkins
2013-07-23 9:42 ` Pieter Wuille
2013-07-23 9:52 ` Andy Parkins
2013-07-23 9:56 ` Pieter Wuille
2013-07-23 10:02 ` Andy Parkins
2013-07-23 10:06 ` Pieter Wuille [this message]
2013-07-23 9:47 ` Peter Todd
2013-07-23 10:00 ` Andy Parkins
2013-07-23 10:17 ` Peter Todd
2013-07-23 11:45 ` Andy Parkins
2013-07-23 10:19 ` Pieter Wuille
2013-07-23 10:29 ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-07-23 10:36 ` Pieter Wuille
2013-07-23 15:48 ` Michael Hendricks
2013-07-23 19:36 ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-08-10 20:30 ` Rune Kjær Svendsen
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