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From: Thomas Voegtlin <thomasv1@gmx.de>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Plans to separate wallet from core
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:24:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A97C1A.2060906@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+s+GJBsrV2mjotM9==1M8Cm8EjoQ4Oh0BN3cdUOARryy2VwAA@mail.gmail.com>



Le 24/06/2014 11:44, Wladimir a écrit :
>> But IMO this is a passed stage. SPV wallets w/ Bloom filtering can
>> work without any special servers, so why require a 'close binding' to
>> a trusted bitcoin core?
> 
> To clarify (and not piss off ThomasV :-): I do not think the idea of
> having servers with a reputation of their own is a passed stage. There
> are many things that cannot be done at SPV level security with just
> the P2P protocol yet. So having fewer but more trusted Electrum
> servers is a reasonable compromise.
> 


Thanks for that :)

Note that my goal is to make the Electrum servers as trustless as
possible, and not to rely on some sort of 'reputation'.

Thomas



  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-24 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-23  9:50 [Bitcoin-development] Plans to separate wallet from core Jorge Timón
2014-06-23 10:32 ` Wladimir
2014-06-23 20:15   ` Jorge Timón
2014-06-24  9:07     ` Wladimir
2014-06-24  9:44       ` Wladimir
2014-06-24 13:24         ` Thomas Voegtlin [this message]
2014-06-24 15:33       ` Justus Ranvier
2014-06-24 16:40         ` Jorge Timón
2014-06-25  5:43           ` Wladimir
2014-06-24  9:11     ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-24  9:40       ` Wladimir
2014-06-24 10:12         ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-24 11:29       ` Jorge Timón
2014-06-24 11:48         ` Tamas Blummer
2014-06-24 13:26           ` Jorge Timón
2014-06-24 13:37             ` Pieter Wuille
2014-06-24 11:58         ` Wladimir
2014-06-24 12:16           ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-24 12:41             ` Wladimir

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