On Tuesday, June 16, 2015 3:30:44 AM Kevin Greene wrote: > Would SPV wallets have to pay to connect to the network too? From the > user's perspective, it would be somewhat upsetting (and confusing) to see > your balance slowly draining every time you open your wallet app. It would > also tie up outputs every time you open up your wallet. You may go to pay > for something in a coffee shop, only to find that you can't spend your > bitcoin because the wallet had to create a transaction to pay to sync with > the network. > > Also, users of centralized wallet services like Coinbase would not have to > pay that fee; but users of native wallets like breadwallet would have no > such option. This incentivizes users to use centralized wallets. > > So this is kind of imposing a worse user experience on users who want to > use bitcoin the "right" way. That doesn't seem like a good thing to me :/
SPV isn't the "right" way either ;) If you're running a full node (the real "right way"), you should be able to earn more bitcoins than you pay out. Luke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
