I like this idea, but let's run some numbers... bfd--- via bitcoin-dev [bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org] wrote: > A Bloom Filter Digest is deterministically created of every block
Bloom filters completely obfuscate the required size of the filter for a desired
false-positive rate. But, an optimal filter is linear in the number of elements
it contains for fixed false-positive rate, and logarithmic in the false-positive
rate. (This comment applies to a RLL encoded Bloom filter Greg mentioned, but
that's not the only way) That is for N elements and false positive rate
\epsilon:
filter size = - N \log_2 \epsilon
Given that the data that would be put into this particular filter is *already*
hashed, it makes more sense and is faster to use a Cuckoo[1] filter, choosing a
fixed false-positive rate, given expected wallet sizes. For Bloom filters,
multiply the above formula by 1.44.
To prevent light clients from downloading more blocks than necessary, the
false-positive rate should be roughly less than 1/(block height). If we take
the false positive rate to be 1e-6 for today's block height ~ 410000, this is
about 20 bits per element. So for todays block's, this is a 30kb filter, for a
3% increase in block size, if blocks commit to the filter. Thus the required
size of the filter commitment is roughly:
filter size = N \log_2 H
where H is the block height. If bitcoin had these filters from the beginning, a
light client today would have to download about 12MB of data in filters. My
personal SPV wallet is using 31MB currently. It's not clear this is a bandwidth
win, though it's definitely a win for computing load on full nodes.
[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/cuckoo-conext2014.pdf
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