From: "Jorge Timón" <timon.elviejo@gmail.com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Protocol extensions
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:37:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGQP0AGAgPWpfjDouRcOR3Gu1LWSEJgWxB-JK5Qq0wiP25_CdQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1324228179.7053.140661013136581@webmail.messagingengine.com>
2011/12/17, theymos <theymos@mm.st>:
> My preferred solution for handling scalability in the future is to
> have lightweight clients download only headers and Merkle trees (which
> are both small and easy to distribute), and then require senders to
> contact recipients directly in order to transmit their transactions.
> Then lightweight clients never need full blocks to build their
> balances, and full nodes don't have to handle expensive queries from
> lightweight clients.
This idea is really interesting. Is there any drawback I don't see?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-18 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-17 7:41 [Bitcoin-development] Protocol extensions Eric Lombrozo
2011-12-17 13:13 ` Michael Grønager
2011-12-17 13:37 ` Christian Decker
[not found] ` <CABsx9T0puk3CWH1cfNHMSVEoCPaLJJWNJ+H5ObCERZrzMbrTyA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-12-17 19:06 ` Gavin Andresen
2011-12-17 21:49 ` theymos
2011-12-18 0:44 ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-18 1:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-12-18 1:27 ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-18 14:16 ` Andy Parkins
2011-12-18 17:09 ` theymos
2011-12-18 18:06 ` Alan Reiner
2011-12-18 18:47 ` Amir Taaki
2011-12-18 19:37 ` Jorge Timón [this message]
2011-12-17 19:28 ` Gregory Maxwell
2011-12-17 20:34 ` Christian Decker
2011-12-18 21:19 ` Stefan Thomas
2011-12-19 21:43 ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-20 9:10 ` Wladimir
2011-12-20 10:44 ` Nicolas Fischer
2011-12-21 0:47 ` Kyle Henderson
2011-12-21 8:50 ` Michael Grønager
2011-12-21 11:42 ` Eric Lombrozo
2011-12-21 12:41 ` Michael Grønager
2011-12-21 16:10 ` Christian Decker
2011-12-22 9:18 ` Michael Grønager
2011-12-22 10:12 ` Andy Parkins
2011-12-22 10:27 ` Michael Grønager
2011-12-22 11:52 ` Andy Parkins
2011-12-22 12:14 ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2011-12-22 12:26 ` Christian Decker
2011-12-22 12:42 ` Michael Grønager
2011-12-22 14:46 ` Andy Parkins
2011-12-25 2:55 ` Zell Faze
2011-12-21 17:17 ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-22 9:19 ` Michael Grønager
2011-12-21 6:19 Eric Lombrozo
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