From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
Ethan Scruples <ethan.scruples@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] assumeutxo and UTXO snapshots
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 02:48:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201904040248.34162.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACiOHGxxqm5Qn8J9u5oDE5Ek5smqB4E4iz4PJOZHpJO5kwP=-A@mail.gmail.com>
On Wednesday 03 April 2019 15:39:29 Ethan Scruples via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> If we can get mandatory UTXO commitments soft forked into Bitcoin, we get
> the advantage of a non-growing IBD,
No, we don't. This is exactly the danger. UTXO snapshots are NOT an
alternative to a real IBD. There are HUGE security implications for this.
Frankly, the danger that someone would do such a thing is itself a good
reason not to ever add UTXO commitments.
Luke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-04 2:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-02 20:43 [bitcoin-dev] assumeutxo and UTXO snapshots James O'Beirne
2019-04-03 6:37 ` Jonas Schnelli
2019-04-03 15:39 ` Ethan Scruples
2019-04-03 21:39 ` Dave Scotese
2019-04-04 3:01 ` Luke Dashjr
2019-04-04 5:59 ` Jim Posen
2019-04-04 14:36 ` James O'Beirne
2019-04-13 19:09 ` Peter Todd
2019-04-15 0:44 ` Dave Scotese
2019-04-04 2:48 ` Luke Dashjr [this message]
2019-04-04 3:04 ` Ethan Scruples
2019-04-03 19:51 ` James O'Beirne
2019-04-03 9:55 ` Luke Dashjr
2019-04-03 23:03 ` Jim Posen
2019-04-14 13:16 ` Omar Shibli
2019-04-23 14:17 ` James O'Beirne
[not found] <mailman.2593.1554248572.29810.bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
2019-04-03 7:51 ` Nicolas Dorier
2019-04-04 10:27 ` Kulpreet Singh
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