[bitcoin-dev] Guessing the spentness status of the pruned relatives

[Bram Cohen]

On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 6:58 PM, praxeology_guy <
praxeology_guy at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Bram Cohen,
>
> In R&D: First its appropriate to explore all interesting ideas, and help
> each other improve their ideas.  Last, when there is a deadline that needs
> to be met, we compare various options and decide on which to go with.
>
> I'm on the First step still.
>

In that case you should read my txo bitfield proposal, instead of taking my
postings yesterday as a prompt to respond to something completely unrelated.


> If you really want to push me to saying it, I'm not a fan of the Patricia
> Tree for bitcoin txos.  I think its too much work for everyone to do when
> other options are available.  But I'm not trying to say that your design is
> bad or wont work... I'm just personally not interested in it at this time.
>

My bitfield proposal is different from the patricia trie stuff. Also your
objection about patricia tries being 'too much work' is nonsensical because
they're quite a bit simpler than MMRs.
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