Hi,
I believe two wallets. Andreas' Android Bitcoin wallet and BRD are
significant users of node_bloom.
Privacy is a matter of individual choice in the current protocol. Why not
let people provide this network service? I don't see why it should be
end-of-life if it provides value.
I believe ther
On Sunday 21 July 2019 22:56:33 Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> An estimated 10+ million wallets depend on that NODE_BLOOM to be
> updated.
Where do you see this number? I think it would be useful to chart.
> So far, I haven't heard of an alternative, except reading all
> transaction
On Monday 22 July 2019 13:25:25 Jonas Schnelli via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > I also think as long as we don't have an alternative, we should improve
> > the current filtering for segwit. E.g. testing the scripts themselves
> > and each scriptPubKey spent by any input against the filter would do,
> > a
On 7/22/19 12:01 AM, Matt Corallo via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Finally, regarding alternatives, the filter-generation code for BIP
> 157/158 has been in Bitcoin Core for some time, though the P2P serving
> side of things appears to have lost any champions working on it. I
> presume one of the Lightning
Has someone built an analysis of how much extra bandwidth CFB uses over
bloom filters?
Obviously an active merchant in an impoverished country paying data rates
per MB will never be able to afford CFB — so those people are being cut out
of Bitcoin entirely. I suppose the plan is they will rely on
On 7/20/19 10:46 AM, Matt Corallo via bitcoin-dev wrote:
(less trustful and privacy-violating) alternative
over the coming years.
The same paper that established the 'privacy-violating' conventional
wisdom presented mitigations which have seen little exploration.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/
Hi Andreas
>> well-known DoS vectors
>
> I asked many people, even some "core developers" at meetings, but nobody
> ever was able to explain the DoS vector. I think this is just a myth.
No. They are not a myth [1] [2] [3].
> Yes, you can set an overly blurry filter and thus cause useless traffi
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 12:56:33AM +0200, Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev
wrote:
> An estimated 10+ million wallets depend on that NODE_BLOOM to be
> updated. So far, I haven't heard of an alternative, except reading all
> transactions and full blocks.
Can you specify exactly which wallets tho
Hey Andreas,
I think maybe some of the comments here were misunderstood - I don't
anticipate that most people will change their defaults, indeed, but
given the general upgrade cycles we've seen on the network over the
entire course of Bitcoin's history, there's little reason to believe
that many n
