2023-02-25 19:52:59 UTC
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semisol on Nostr: It would be great if Samourai could start using something like SPV wallets with bloom ...

It would be great if Samourai could start using something like SPV wallets with bloom filters, and that people weren't told to get an entirely new node for the sole purpose of using one wallet.

- Bloom filters have a false positive rate, which means each block the client matches doesn't have its own TXs, and that is desirable
- Client only downloads blocks instead of individual TXs or sending addresses, and since there is a chance of false positives a block being downloaded does not mean that there was a TX from that wallet 100%
- Client side matching doesn't reveal addresses to peers
- There isn't a single peer that could scoop up a lot of data