On Wednesday 03 April 2019 15:39:29 Ethan Scruples via bitcoin-dev wrote: > If we can get mandatory UTXO commitments soft forked into Bitcoin, we get > the advantage of a non-growing IBD,
No, we don't. This is exactly the danger. UTXO snapshots are NOT an alternative to a real IBD. There are HUGE security implications for this. Frankly, the danger that someone would do such a thing is itself a good reason not to ever add UTXO commitments. Luke _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
