There was a discussion about using DHT's for transactions a while back on the forums: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=723.msg7908#msg7908
If you can figure out a scheme that is secure from malicious Sybil attacks then you're smarter than I am. And additional protocol messages for lightweight clients is a good idea, as long as they don't make it a lot easier to pull off a denial-of-service attacks on a "full" node. Although I do also wonder if we'll ever run into a problem with full nodes refusing to answer requests from lightweight nodes (there might be a tragedy-of-the-commons problem lurking there). -- -- Gavin Andresen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it provides. You can attend the event by watching it streamed LIVE online. Learn more at http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-windowsazure _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
