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 1Ywzi1-00006Y-JJ for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 25 May 2015 21:14:53 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.192.178 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.192.178; envelope-from=wtogami@gmail.com; helo=mail-pd0-f178.google.com; Received: from mail-pd0-f178.google.com ([209.85.192.178]) by sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1Ywzi0-0000L1-JG for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 25 May 2015 21:14:53 +0000 Received: by pdbqa5 with SMTP id qa5so75695514pdb.0 for ; Mon, 25 May 2015 14:14:47 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.69.17.130 with SMTP id ge2mr42116112pbd.75.1432588486976; Mon, 25 May 2015 14:14:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.93.72 with HTTP; Mon, 25 May 2015 14:14:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <2114827.D6GUhXtGkV@crushinator> <1515563.NQHYuaqTfB@crushinator> Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 14:14:46 -0700 Message-ID: From: "Warren Togami Jr." Cc: Bitcoin Dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Score: 2.3 (++) 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 (wtogami[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 1.2 MISSING_HEADERS Missing To: header -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 2.7 MALFORMED_FREEMAIL Bad headers on message from free email service X-Headers-End: 1Ywzi0-0000L1-JG Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] A suggestion for reducing the size of the UTXO database 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: Mon, 25 May 2015 21:14:53 -0000 On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Andreas Schildbach wrote: > Yes, that's the issue. Because you're connecting only to one node, you > don't get any instant confirmations -- due to a Bitcoin protocol > limitation you can only get them from nodes you don't post the tx to. Is it really wise to call this a "confirmation"? All this is really telling you is one seemingly random peer has relayed the transaction back to you that you sent to a presumably different seemingly random peer. Warren