From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.191] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-3.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WXwNJ-0005WY-Df for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 17:33:25 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.216.182 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.216.182; envelope-from=alex.mizrahi@gmail.com; helo=mail-qc0-f182.google.com; Received: from mail-qc0-f182.google.com ([209.85.216.182]) by sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1WXwNI-0000vz-Of for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 17:33:25 +0000 Received: by mail-qc0-f182.google.com with SMTP id e16so3136331qcx.13 for ; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 10:33:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.163.73 with SMTP id z9mr14353679qax.90.1397064799216; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 10:33:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.96.77.38 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Apr 2014 10:33:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 20:33:19 +0300 Message-ID: From: Alex Mizrahi To: Bitcoin Dev Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e0158b03015ece504f69f7faf X-Spam-Score: -0.6 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (alex.mizrahi[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 1.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1WXwNI-0000vz-Of Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoind-in-background mode for SPV wallets X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 17:33:25 -0000 --089e0158b03015ece504f69f7faf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 1) It's more private. Bloom filters gives away quite accurate statistical > information about what coins you own to whom ever you happen to be > connected too. An attacker can easily use this to deanonymize you even if > you don't reuse addresses; Tor does not help much against this attack. > There is also an option to download everything, but do only a very basic surface validation (without keeping track of UTXOs). You do not need a full node for that. --089e0158b03015ece504f69f7faf Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
1) It's more private. Bloom filters gives aw= ay quite accurate statistical information about what coins you own to whom = ever you happen to be connected too. An attacker can easily use this to dea= nonymize you even if you don't reuse addresses; Tor does not help much = against this attack.

There is also an option to download everyt= hing, but do only a very basic surface validation (without keeping track of= UTXOs).
You do not need a full node for that.
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