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 _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
