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From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
	Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core to disable Bloom-based Filtering by default
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 19:19:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201907271919.49999.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qh76ln$41ag$1@blaine.gmane.org>

On Tuesday 23 July 2019 14:47:18 Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> 3) Afaik, it enforces/encourages address re-use. This stems from the
> fact that the server decides on the filter and in particular on the
> false positive rate. On wallets with many addresses, a hardcoded filter
> will be too blurry and thus each block will be matched. So wallets that
> follow the "one address per incoming payment" pattern (e.g. HD wallets)
> at some point will be forced to wrap their key chains back to the
> beginning. If I'm wrong on this one please let me know.

BTW, you are indeed wrong on this. You don't need to match every single 
address the wallet has ever used, only outstanding addresses that haven't 
been paid. ;)

Luke


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-27 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-20 17:46 [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core to disable Bloom-based Filtering by default Matt Corallo
2019-07-21 22:56 ` Andreas Schildbach
2019-07-22  5:01   ` Matt Corallo
2019-07-22 15:58     ` Justus Ranvier
2019-07-26  7:45       ` Tamas Blummer
2019-07-22  8:32   ` Peter Todd
2019-07-22 13:25   ` Jonas Schnelli
2019-07-22 17:17     ` Luke Dashjr
2019-07-22 17:26   ` Luke Dashjr
2019-07-23 14:47   ` Andreas Schildbach
2019-07-24 13:11     ` Justus Ranvier
2019-07-25  3:04     ` Luke Dashjr
2019-07-26 10:04     ` Jonas Schnelli
2019-07-27 16:10       ` Matt Corallo
2019-07-26 16:48     ` Chris
2019-07-27 19:19     ` Luke Dashjr [this message]
2019-07-22 15:04 ` Tom Harding
2019-07-22 15:15   ` Dustin Dettmer
     [not found] ` <FF0175BF-1D1F-4AD4-9B13-99D522DBCD83@bridge21.com>
2019-08-14 15:07   ` Matt Corallo
2019-07-22 18:52 Peter
2019-07-22 20:42 ` Greg Sanders
2019-07-22 21:17 ` Luke Dashjr
2019-07-23 20:36 ` Peter Todd

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