On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 5:55 PM, bfd--- via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Having a commitment to a "balance" of an "address" (I assume you mean > P2SH/P2PKH script) is extremely expensive to create and validate, does > not scale and is not a particularly useful thing for a client to use. > The benefit of this sort of infrequent utxo commitment is that it would allow a new client to download just the contents of the utxo set and not have to get the entire blockchain history, which is much larger.
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