A border router that is not able to serve blocks is still protecting consensus rules, that SPVs do not. If the network would only consist of SPV nodes only then e.g. a majority coalition of miner could increase their reward at will.
Archives need a different solution. Regards, Tamas Blummer http://bitsofproof.com On 09.04.2014, at 17:47, Mark Friedenbach <m...@monetize.io> wrote: > On 04/09/2014 09:09 AM, Tamas Blummer wrote: >> Yes, SPV is a sufficient API to a trusted node to build sophisticated >> features not offered by the core. >> SPV clients of the border router will build their own archive and >> indices based on their interest of the chain therefore the >> border router core does not need to store (and process) anything not >> needed for consensus, its memory >> or disk footprint would be as low as an optimal storage of UTXO. > > Storing zero full blocks does nothing to aid the network.
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