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From: Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize.io>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Chain pruning
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:15:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <534717F3.6@monetize.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53470E65.5080402@jcea.es>

Checkpoints will go away, eventually.

On 04/10/2014 02:34 PM, Jesus Cea wrote:
> On 10/04/14 18:59, Pieter Wuille wrote:
>> It's important to
>> note that this is a strict reduction in security: we're now trusting
>> that the longest chain (with most proof of work) commits to a valid
>> UTXO set (at some point in the past).
> 
> AFAIK, current bitcoin code code already set blockchain checkpoints from
> time to time. It is a garanteed that a longer chain starting before the
> checkpoint is not going to be accepted suddently. See
> <https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=194078.0>.
> 
> Could be perfectly valid to store only unspend wallets before last
> checkpoint, if during the blockchain download the node did all the checks.
> 
> Would be interesting, of course, to be able to verify "unspend wallet
> accounting" having only that checkpoint data (the merkle tree can do
> that, I guess). So you could detect a data corruption or manipulation in
> your local harddisk.
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-10 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-10 11:37 [Bitcoin-development] Chain pruning Mike Hearn
2014-04-10 11:57 ` Wladimir
2014-04-10 12:10   ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-10 14:19     ` Wladimir
2014-04-10 16:23       ` Brian Hoffman
2014-04-10 16:28         ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-10 16:47           ` Brian Hoffman
2014-04-10 16:54             ` Ricardo Filipe
2014-04-10 16:56               ` Brian Hoffman
2014-04-10 16:59             ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-10 17:06               ` Brian Hoffman
2014-04-10 18:19               ` Paul Rabahy
2014-04-10 18:32                 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-10 20:12                   ` Tier Nolan
2014-04-10 20:29                     ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-10 19:36                 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-10 21:34               ` Jesus Cea
2014-04-10 22:15                 ` Mark Friedenbach [this message]
2014-04-10 22:24                   ` Jesus Cea
2014-04-10 22:33                     ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-10 16:52           ` Ricardo Filipe

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