Re:Introducing Token
by AroundTheBlock_ on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:52AM
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No true light client exists. SPV is different. See here a Core dev talking about it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/53bfj6/will_there_...
Even your own links says "A Bitcoin implementation that does not verify everything, but instead relies on either connecting to a trusted node"
It verifies enough information to be secure. It is obvious that at one point they need to connect to some node because this ia the way blockcgain works.
Re:Introducing Token
by AroundTheBlock_ on Friday April 21, 2017 @10:37AM
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Ok sure, connect to another node. But a light client is its own node.
That doesn't exist per definition. You cannot have a light client that its own node and it is not the node defined in the specific blockchain. The bitcoin innovation was about using a common ledger for every node and the nodes must run specific code to check that the blockchain state is the correct one.
If you find a way a node can do less work that what is doing now without relying on another node you would discover something new at the computer science level, so this light node will transform into the definition of a node.
No, SPV clients exist to avoid running a node: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/4649/what-is-an-...