Re: [bitcoin-dev] assumeutxo and UTXO snapshots

2019-04-03 Thread Ethan Scruples via bitcoin-dev
the electricity he has spent validating the previous blocks? I cannot find any, but I am open to hearing the answer, and I think others would benefit from knowing it as well. On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 10:49 PM Luke Dashjr wrote: > On Wednesday 03 April 2019 15:39:29 Ethan Scruples via bitcoin-dev

Re: [bitcoin-dev] assumeutxo and UTXO snapshots

2019-04-03 Thread Ethan Scruples via bitcoin-dev
Jonas, If we can get mandatory UTXO commitments soft forked into Bitcoin, we get the advantage of a non-growing IBD, which I think everyone would agree is a benefit that, uh, grows over time. The thing I do not see people noticing is that we actually pay little to no security price for this benefi