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Title: Could a Bitcoin client be designed to only need a few day's transactions? Post by: andrewbb on October 25, 2014, 03:17:08 PM "Hashpoints" could be published by miners every so often (once a day maybe), so you'd only have to download the last day's transactions on a new client.
Title: Re: Could a Bitcoin client be designed to only need a few day's transactions? Post by: andrewbb on October 25, 2014, 03:18:41 PM Why can't the client just start from the last verified blockchain hash?
Title: Re: Could a Bitcoin client be designed to only need a few day's transactions? Post by: shorena on October 25, 2014, 03:35:18 PM "Hashpoints" could be published by miners every so often (once a day maybe), so you'd only have to download the last day's transactions on a new client. How would you verify that my transaction is valid as it spends an output that is 17 days old and you only have the transactions/blocks from the last 24 hours? Why can't the client just start from the last verified blockchain hash? Verified? By whom? I think what you want is a slim client such as Multibit or Electrum. Title: Re: Could a Bitcoin client be designed to only need a few day's transactions? Post by: HeroCat on October 25, 2014, 03:37:44 PM You need only Multibit then ;D
Title: Re: Could a Bitcoin client be designed to only need a few day's transactions? Post by: Meuh6879 on October 25, 2014, 03:38:12 PM Why can't the client just start from the last verified blockchain hash? use merkle trees client, instead (all android and iphone wallet, multibit ... etcs ...). Title: Re: Could a Bitcoin client be designed to only need a few day's transactions? Post by: andrewbb on October 25, 2014, 04:03:11 PM Ok thanks. I think Electrum is what I was looking for.
Title: Re: Could a Bitcoin client be designed to only need a few day's transactions? Post by: MTJ151 on October 25, 2014, 11:48:00 PM The alt coin Boolberry works something like this I think.
Title: Re: Could a Bitcoin client be designed to only need a few day's transactions? Post by: bitnanigans on October 26, 2014, 12:33:11 AM You can build a standalone client which makes calls to APIs to get balances and such. I'm working on something similar to that concept at the moment.
Title: Re: Could a Bitcoin client be designed to only need a few day's transactions? Post by: susan234 on October 26, 2014, 05:53:27 AM "Hashpoints" could be published by miners every so often (once a day maybe), so you'd only have to download the last day's transactions on a new client. Your idea is good, this function should be able to achieve.at that time your coins will be more secure |