<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1nqeart5fmxjzj4tejkp7fckp0qa4hw3gpha6espxudum2qlvvrhqvlnwve</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1nqeart5fmxjzj4tejkp7fckp0qa4hw3gpha6espxudum2qlvvrhqvlnwve</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2014-04-09&#xA;📝 Original message:How would this affect the user in terms of disk storage? They&#39;re going to&#xA;get hammered on space constraints aren&#39;t they? If it&#39;s not required how&#xA;likely are users to enable this?&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Wladimir &lt;laanwj at gmail.com&gt; wrote:&#xA;&#xA;&gt; Hello,&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; This is primarily aimed at developers of SPV wallets.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; The recently reported decrease in number of full nodes could have several&#xA;&gt; reasons, one of them that less people are running Bitcoin Core for the&#xA;&gt; wallet because the other wallets are getting ahead in both features and&#xA;&gt; useability.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; It&#39;s great to see innovation in wallets, but it&#39;s worrying that the number&#xA;&gt; of full nodes decreases.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; It may be that lots of people would support the network by running a full&#xA;&gt; node, but don&#39;t want to go through the trouble of installing bitcoin core&#xA;&gt; separately (and get confused because it&#39;s a wallet, too).&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Hence I&#39;d like to explore the idea of adding an option to popular SPV&#xA;&gt; wallets, to spin a bitcoind process in the background. This could be pretty&#xA;&gt; much transparent to the user - it would sync in the background, the wallet&#xA;&gt; could show statistics about the node, but is not dependent on it.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; In exchange the user would get increased (full node level) security, as&#xA;&gt; the SPV wallet would have a local trusted node.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Does this sound like a good idea?&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Is there any way that Bitcoin Core can help to accomedate this &#39;embedded&#39;&#xA;&gt; usage? Specific Interfaces, special builds - maybe add a walletless&#xA;&gt; bitcoind build to gitian - bindings, dlls, etc?&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Wladimir&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&gt; Put Bad Developers to Shame&#xA;&gt; Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration&#xA;&gt; Continuously Automate Build, Test &amp; Deployment&#xA;&gt; Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud.&#xA;&gt; http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees&#xA;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt; Bitcoin-development mailing list&#xA;&gt; Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net&#xA;&gt; https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140409/0039915d/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>