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From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Suggestion for enhancements to getblock
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 13:45:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgRH-At6Y-MD7M77geRHMbX+F0Fpck_q2KtdDoJijySKFQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP0L-8PmwLma4DJdfoj+NefXS0kH8wvVFe-vuyRnpF-+mw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:
[snip]
> You have to treat appearing deep in the chain as ipso-facto proof of
> validity. Lightweight/SPV clients simply must have that trust, it
> cannot be done any other way. See this article:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/wiki/SecurityModel


It _could_ be done another way, with a protocol change:
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=21995.0



      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-07 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-07  9:49 [Bitcoin-development] Suggestion for enhancements to getblock Andy Parkins
2011-07-07 15:42 ` Mike Hearn
2011-07-07 16:19   ` Andy Parkins
2011-07-07 16:44     ` Mike Hearn
2011-07-07 19:02       ` Andy Parkins
2011-07-07 17:45   ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]

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