Re: [Mimblewimble] Treeless block and UTXO set validation

2017-07-27 Thread Ignotus Peverell
Yes, I realized it yesterday, was pondering on it some more before emailing yet again. I take it as a lesson to sit for a couple days on a new idea that seems too good before emailing :) And yes, protonmail is annoying that way, it detects the emails are from mailing lists but still spams them f

Re: [Mimblewimble] Treeless block and UTXO set validation

2017-07-27 Thread Merope Riddle
For some reason this message was sent to spam in Protonmail. May be why there are so few replies. Sums are not sufficient to validate the UTXO set. Anybody who owns two outputs summing to a commitment `C` can give a peer any pair of commitments `C1` and `C2` with valid rangeproofs such that `C1