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From: Bram Cohen <bram@bittorrent.com>
To: praxeology_guy <praxeology_guy@protonmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Guessing the spentness status of the pruned relatives
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2017 19:18:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+KqGkpLJasuYqn9tzA_CUihwmoRqpQZ_exOUT_uqGYEesvceQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 6:58 PM, praxeology_guy <
praxeology_guy@protonmail.com> wrote:

> Bram Cohen,
>
> In R&D: First its appropriate to explore all interesting ideas, and help
> each other improve their ideas.  Last, when there is a deadline that needs
> to be met, we compare various options and decide on which to go with.
>
> I'm on the First step still.
>

In that case you should read my txo bitfield proposal, instead of taking my
postings yesterday as a prompt to respond to something completely unrelated.


> If you really want to push me to saying it, I'm not a fan of the Patricia
> Tree for bitcoin txos.  I think its too much work for everyone to do when
> other options are available.  But I'm not trying to say that your design is
> bad or wont work... I'm just personally not interested in it at this time.
>

My bitfield proposal is different from the patricia trie stuff. Also your
objection about patricia tries being 'too much work' is nonsensical because
they're quite a bit simpler than MMRs.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-02  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-01 20:04 [bitcoin-dev] Guessing the spentness status of the pruned relatives praxeology_guy
2017-04-01 23:38 ` bfd
2017-04-02  1:10   ` praxeology_guy
2017-04-02  1:27     ` Bram Cohen
2017-04-02  1:58       ` praxeology_guy
2017-04-02  2:18         ` Bram Cohen [this message]
2017-04-02  3:37           ` praxeology_guy
2017-04-02 20:43             ` praxeology_guy
2017-04-03  3:13               ` Bram Cohen

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