Peter Todd [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-01-24 📝 Original message:On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at ...

📅 Original date posted:2014-01-24
📝 Original message:On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:26:19PM +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
> >
> > brittleness. The real world experience is that users, or to be exact
> > wallet authors, turn down SPV privacy parameters until bloom filters
> > have almost no privacy in exchange for little bandwidth usage.
>
>
> That's not fundamental though, it just reflects that the only
> implementation of this is used on a wide range of devices and doesn't yet
> have any notion of bandwidth modes or monitoring. It can and will be
> resolved at some point.

Resolved for some users, not for all. The underlying trade-off will
always be there; less bandwidth makes it harder, more addresses to check
makes it harder; an HD wallet used properly without re-using addresses
will quickly lead to a fairly full bloom filter unless addresses are
expired, and expiration leads to scenarios where funds can be lost.

I think we need to provide users with better options than that.

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'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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