On 2012-12-21 17:05:21 +, Stephen Pair said:
> Also, identity is one thing, an elaborate trust based identity
> verification system (like CA's) is a whole other thing.
Your distinction between "identity" and "trust-based identity" is one
of the most important insights to emerge from this thr
On 2012-01-23 20:00:59 -0600, Alberto Torres said:
> This proposal describes how to add a hash-tree based check in the
> blockchain that allows to verify if a transaction is unspent without
> downloading and checking all the blockchain. The idea is not new, but
> at the time of this writing there i
On 2012-01-02 14:41:10 -0800, Gregory Maxwell said:
> make this possible: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=21995.0
Neat! I had a similar idea but you've clearly beat me to [a big part of] it.
> Er, no— if a node controls the private keys for a transaction, and
> that transaction makes i
On 2012-01-02 05:31:19 -0800, Christian Decker said:
> Later full blocks would be required to detect usable inputs for future
> outgoing transactions.
Er, yes, this is what I meant; I guess I should have been more specific.
So, a paranoid client cannot confirm reciept of coins until it has an
u
Satoshi's paper mentions that storage requirements for the blockchain
can be reduced by deleting transactions whose outputs have been spent.
If I understand correctly, this technique can only be used for reducing
*storage* requirements, not *bandwidth* needed for the initial chain
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