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From: "G. Andrew Stone" <g.andrew.stone@gmail.com>
To: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
	Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] A Better MMR Definition
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:28:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHUwRvs=f4=4cQPQoNa2ESJAydztZ3VRQg+SOY66UgDDB5i03w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170223181929.GA6268@savin.petertodd.org>

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Can an insertion ordered MMR allow an efficient nonexistence proof?
On Feb 23, 2017 1:20 PM, "Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev" <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 09:53:58AM -0800, Chris Priest wrote:
> > On 2/22/17, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
> > <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > Reposting something that came up recently in a private discussion with
> some
> > > academics:
> > >
> > > Concretely, let's define a prunable MMR with the following grammar.
> This
> > > definition is an improvement on whats in the python-proofmarshal by
> > > committing
> > > to the number of items in the tree implicitly; an obvious
> max-log2(n)-sized
> > > proof-of-tree-size can be obtained by following the right-most nodes:
> >
> > What problem does this try to solve, and what does it have to do with
> bitcoin?
>
> See the discussion on TXO commitments for how MMR's could be used; a
> better MMR
> makes for a better TXO commitment.
>
> --
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>
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-23 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-23  1:15 [bitcoin-dev] A Better MMR Definition Peter Todd
2017-02-23  3:07 ` Bram Cohen
2017-02-23  7:41   ` Peter Todd
2017-02-23 17:53 ` Chris Priest
2017-02-23 18:19   ` Peter Todd
2017-02-23 18:28     ` G. Andrew Stone [this message]
2017-02-23 18:31       ` Peter Todd
2017-02-23 23:13   ` Bram Cohen
2017-02-23 23:51     ` Peter Todd
2017-02-24  0:49       ` Bram Cohen
2017-02-24  1:09         ` Peter Todd
2017-02-24  2:50           ` Bram Cohen
2017-02-24  2:58             ` Peter Todd
2017-02-24  3:02               ` Bram Cohen
2017-02-24  3:15                 ` Peter Todd
2017-02-24  3:32                   ` Bram Cohen
2017-02-24  4:36                     ` Peter Todd
2017-02-24 22:20                       ` Bram Cohen
2017-02-25  4:12                         ` Peter Todd
2017-02-25  6:23                           ` Bram Cohen
2017-02-28 16:43                             ` G. Andrew Stone
2017-02-28 23:10                               ` Bram Cohen
2017-02-28 23:24                                 ` Pieter Wuille
2017-03-01  1:47                                   ` Bram Cohen
2017-03-01  1:56                                     ` Peter Todd
2017-03-01 22:31                             ` Peter Todd
2017-03-31 20:38                               ` Bram Cohen
2017-04-01 10:18                                 ` praxeology_guy
2017-04-01 19:46                                   ` praxeology_guy

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