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Topic: Could a Bitcoin client be designed to only need a few day's transactions? (Read 1149 times)

sr. member
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"Hashpoints" could be published by miners every so often (once a day maybe), so you'd only have to download the last day's transactions on a new client.


Your idea is good, this function should be able to achieve.at that time  your coins will be more secure
sr. member
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You can build a standalone client which makes calls to APIs to get balances and such. I'm working on something similar to that concept at the moment.
full member
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The alt coin Boolberry works something like this I think.
member
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Ok thanks.  I think Electrum is what I was looking for.
legendary
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Why can't the client just start from the last verified blockchain hash?

use merkle trees client, instead (all android and iphone wallet, multibit ... etcs ...).
hero member
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You need only Multibit then  Grin
copper member
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No I dont escrow anymore.
"Hashpoints" could be published by miners every so often (once a day maybe), so you'd only have to download the last day's transactions on a new client.


How would you verify that my transaction is valid as it spends an output that is 17 days old and you only have the transactions/blocks from the last 24 hours?

Why can't the client just start from the last verified blockchain hash?

Verified? By whom?

I think what you want is a slim client such as Multibit or Electrum.
member
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Why can't the client just start from the last verified blockchain hash?
member
Activity: 81
Merit: 10
"Hashpoints" could be published by miners every so often (once a day maybe), so you'd only have to download the last day's transactions on a new client.
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