From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9B538AB9 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:43:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from blaine.gmane.org (unknown [195.159.176.226]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0551AAA for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:43:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dMypf-0000Ct-K9 for bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 17:43:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org From: Andreas Schildbach Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 17:43:14 +0200 Message-ID: References: <537fb7106e0387c77537f0b1279cbeca@cock.lu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 In-Reply-To: <537fb7106e0387c77537f0b1279cbeca@cock.lu> Content-Language: en-US X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: Compact Client Side Filtering for Light Clients X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:43:24 -0000 Just to give you a number: based on the statistics of the Bitcoin Wallet app there are at least 2 million wallets depending on BIP37. Not all would need instant notification but based on the daily support enquiries instant notificaton is the most asked property of Bitcoin. On 06/19/2017 02:26 PM, bfd--- via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Several times. It's been debated if unconfirmed transactions are > necessary, methods of doing more private filtering have been suggested, > along with simply not filtering unconfirmed transactions at all. My > collected data suggests that there is very little use of BIP37 at > present, based on incoming connections to nodes I know end up in the DNS > seed responses (no "SPV" clients do their own peer management). > > > On 2017-06-19 12:58, Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev wrote: >> I'm not sure if this has been brought up elsewhere in this thread. >> >> This proposal doesn't seem to be a complete replacement of BIP37: It >> doesn't provide a filter for unconfirmed transactions like BIP37 does. >> >> That means that most light clients will continue to use BIP37 even if >> they may use this BIP as a supplement. Otherwise users would not get >> timely notification of incoming payments any more. >> >> >> On 06/01/2017 09:01 PM, Olaoluwa Osuntokun via bitcoin-dev wrote: >>> Hi y'all, >>> >>> Alex Akselrod and I would like to propose a new light client BIP for >>> consideration: >>> * >>> https://github.com/Roasbeef/bips/blob/master/gcs_light_client.mediawiki >>> [...] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bitcoin-dev mailing list >> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org >> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev