{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1ccegg9n9lnx6huppxg43m95488yur7pfemkn3pz0agjws5ffvtts0ex8m8","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1ccegg9n9lnx6huppxg43m95488yur7pfemkn3pz0agjws5ffvtts0ex8m8","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2014-04-09\n📝 Original message:YES\n\nSuch a bitcoind is what I called border router in a previous mail. \n\nYes, SPV wallets are getting ahead of features, so people will use them also because on size just does not fit all, but all want to ensure being on the same trunk of the chain.\nTherefore serious user of Bitcoin run a bitcoind as a border router and connect SPV wallets with higher functionality to that trusted node(s).\n\nThis is what I think the core should focus on: Being a lightweight superfast consensus building border router and nothing more. No wallet, no GUI, no RPC calls,\nno Payment protocol and the rest.\n\nRegards,\n\nTamas Blummer\nhttp://bitsofproof.com\n\nOn 09.04.2014, at 17:29, Wladimir \u003claanwj at gmail.com\u003e wrote:\n\n\u003e Hello,\n\u003e \n\u003e This is primarily aimed at developers of SPV wallets.\n\u003e \n\u003e The recently reported decrease in number of full nodes could have several reasons, one of them that less people are running Bitcoin Core for the wallet because the other wallets are getting ahead in both features and useability.\n\u003e \n\u003e It's great to see innovation in wallets, but it's worrying that the number of full nodes decreases. \n\u003e \n\u003e It may be that lots of people would support the network by running a full node, but don't want to go through the trouble of installing bitcoin core separately (and get confused because it's a wallet, too).\n\u003e \n\u003e Hence I'd like to explore the idea of adding an option to popular SPV wallets, to spin a bitcoind process in the background. This could be pretty much transparent to the user - it would sync in the background, the wallet could show statistics about the node, but is not dependent on it.\n\u003e \n\u003e In exchange the user would get increased (full node level) security, as the SPV wallet would have a local trusted node.\n\u003e \n\u003e Does this sound like a good idea?\n\u003e \n\u003e Is there any way that Bitcoin Core can help to accomedate this 'embedded' usage? Specific Interfaces, special builds - maybe add a walletless bitcoind build to gitian - bindings, dlls, etc?\n\u003e \n\u003e Wladimir\n\u003e \n\u003e ------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\u003e Put Bad Developers to Shame\n\u003e Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration\n\u003e Continuously Automate Build, Test \u0026 Deployment \n\u003e Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud.\n\u003e http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees_______________________________________________\n\u003e Bitcoin-development mailing list\n\u003e Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net\n\u003e https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development\n\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140409/714a611c/attachment.html\u003e\n-------------- next part --------------\nA non-text attachment was scrubbed...\nName: signature.asc\nType: application/pgp-signature\nSize: 495 bytes\nDesc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140409/714a611c/attachment.sig\u003e"}