[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core to disable Bloom-based Filtering by default

Luke Dashjr luke at dashjr.org
Thu Jul 25 03:04:25 UTC 2019


On Tuesday 23 July 2019 14:47:18 Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > the DNS seed infrastructure among others can easily direct
> > wallets to those nodes
>
> Last I checked none of the seeds did. But I agree this would be nice to
> have.

It's supported by default in sipa's bitcoin-seeder, which many DNS seeds use.

My seed also currently requires NODE_BLOOM for *any* answers returned.
(But I don't guarantee that will remain forever.)

> As a side note, Coinbase just announced their 30M'th wallet. I'm
> convinced this massive run into custodial wallets...

Light wallets are just as bad for the network as custodial wallets.

> IMHO, BIP 37 is the only scaling technology that has proven successful and
> could – if supported and improved rather than choked – continue to help
> holding against the bitbanks trend.

Light wallets are not Bitcoin scaling. They are just trusting anonymous 3rd 
parties, which is harmful to Bitcoin.

Luke


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