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From: "Jorge Timón" <jtimon@jtimon.cc>
To: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
	Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Making UTXO Set Growth Irrelevant With Low-Latency Delayed TXO Commitments
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 13:14:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABm2gDp9NLKS=+2BhtS3tT2aZjV0sGHUkVV-+n_90w4Ud9Aakw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABm2gDqMQanaY0Eo4QAnx2MrKCSP+v31R6J80jSVx+jOwsVsVw@mail.gmail.com>

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On May 17, 2016 15:23, "Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev" <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> # TXO Commitments
>

> Specifically TXO commitments proposes a Merkle Mountain Range¹ (MMR), a
> type of deterministic, indexable, insertion ordered merkle tree, which
allows
> new items to be cheaply appended to the tree with minimal storage
requirements,
> just log2(n) "mountain tips". Once an output is added to the TXO MMR it is
> never removed; if an output is spent its status is updated in place. Both
the
> state of a specific item in the MMR, as well the validity of changes to
items
> in the MMR, can be proven with log2(n) sized proofs consisting of a
merkle path
> to the tip of the tree.

How expensive it is to update a leaf from this tree from unspent to spent?

Wouldn't it be better to have both an append-only TXO and an append-only
STXO (with all spent outputs, not only the latest ones like in your "STXO")?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-18 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-17 13:23 [bitcoin-dev] Making UTXO Set Growth Irrelevant With Low-Latency Delayed TXO Commitments Peter Todd
2016-05-17 14:03 ` Jameson Lopp
2016-05-17 14:25 ` Eric Lombrozo
2016-05-17 18:01   ` Chris Priest
     [not found] ` <CABm2gDoj=6CimHm2C0H_qa=o5SRqWr0ZTGamf-qT-kUjt5WXTA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <CABm2gDqMQanaY0Eo4QAnx2MrKCSP+v31R6J80jSVx+jOwsVsVw@mail.gmail.com>
2016-05-18 11:14     ` Jorge Timón [this message]
2016-05-18 23:53       ` Peter Todd
     [not found]         ` <CABm2gDrXjg_nSKr-ju0jdXxmMc4N=LQFRwaVU3ix1p-T8CVKdQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <CABm2gDrmRf9wjddiMb-TTDE0xkBJ6yMz-bW_aTpDuBvNqrnHzQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]             ` <CABm2gDqfZh0zOqJN5itVk8eP0nshBsydzT6uryrBdRTcYqyhyA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]               ` <CABm2gDr4ZKvGt3qRPpV+iPgGbpQ5cO66M_bPn2HJPn-eYcQMOg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                 ` <CABm2gDrijEMZW1dMjGTfG-32VGvLZvX-ujP1n5mxBeVLQSsL1Q@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                   ` <CABm2gDp9N3ZEZcmF28ESv3V7v_HqU5e5KHY69cSxcVm0t7BeDQ@mail.gmail.com>
2016-05-19  9:31                     ` Jorge Timón
2016-05-19 22:23 ` Nick ODell
2016-05-20  8:45   ` Peter Todd
2016-05-20  9:46 ` Johnson Lau
2016-05-22  8:55   ` Peter Todd

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