Peter Todd [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2019-07-22 📝 Original message:On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at ...

📅 Original date posted:2019-07-22
📝 Original message:On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 12:56:33AM +0200, Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> An estimated 10+ million wallets depend on that NODE_BLOOM to be
> updated. So far, I haven't heard of an alternative, except reading all
> transactions and full blocks.

Can you specify exactly which wallets those are?

Secondly, this doesn't stop people from running NODE_BLOOM nodes, and the DNS
seed infrastructure among others can easily direct wallets to those nodes. This
is of course not very secure, but bloom filters have never been very secure.

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