SPV
8 writings, oldest first
- bitcoin.org
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Satoshi Nakamoto satoshin@gmx.com www.bitcoin.org Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without…
- Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)
Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
Long before the network gets anywhere near as large as that, it would be safe for users to use Simplified Payment Verification (section 8) to check for double spending, which only requires having the chain of block headers, or about 12KB…
- Private email (Martti Malmi)
Re: Bitcoin
mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote: That would be great! I added you (dmp1ce) as a dev to the sourceforge project and gave you access to edit the web space and everything. Definitely. This will be an absolutely essential feature once things get…
- BitcoinTalk
Re: Ummmm... where did my bitcoins go?
It's not the download so much as verifying all the signatures in all the blocks as it downloads that takes a long time. How long is the initial block download typically taking? Does it slow down half way through or is about the same speed…
- BitcoinTalk
Re: Scalability
The design outlines a lightweight client that does not need the full block chain. In the design PDF it's called Simplified Payment Verification. The lightweight client can send and receive transactions, it just can't generate blocks. It…
- BitcoinTalk
Re: BitDNS and Generalizing Bitcoin
The incentive is to get the rewards from the extra side chains also for the same work. While you are generating bitcoins, why not also get free domain names for the same work? If you currently generate 50 BTC per week, now you could get…
- Private email (Mike Hearn)
Open sourced my Java SPV impl
I hope you are doing well. I finally got all the lawyers happy enough to release BitCoinJ under the Google name using the Apache 2 license: It's incomplete - notably it doesn't properly handle block chain splits yet - but the rest is…
- Private email (Mike Hearn)
Open sourced my Java SPV impl
See these threads: http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/ind ex.php?topic=1786.msg22119#msg 22119 http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/ind ex.php?topic=2181.msg28729#msg 28729 I see. So right now fees are tricky because you have to decide up front what the…
