On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Jorge Timón <jti...@monetize.io> wrote: > On 6/24/14, Mike Hearn <m...@plan99.net> wrote: ou did want to separate the wallet code from the full node then that'd be >> the way to do it. > > Exactly, this is part of my point, the qt-wallet does not support SPV > operation at this point, and that complex work should be done after > the wallet is separated. Thus the first version of the separated > wallet should be functionally equivalent to today's wallet, that is, a > full node wallet (even though I understand Wladimir's arguments > against full-node wallets).
Do mind that some of the steps on the path of bitcoind towards SPV are also useful in general. For example, headers-first allows parallel block download, which would solve a lot of sync issues people are having - a much higher priority than the wallet. But anyhow I'm describing how I would do it. If you're going to do it, you can do it in any order that you want. As we're talking about a separate project here it's not even clear who will be maintainer. > 2) That doesn't necessarily mean that optionally maintaining > additional indexes in the core is not interesting for some use cases > (interesting for bitcoind, I don't care much if electrum-server > currently does this and more [with more dependencies]). Although > Pieter thinks that should also be separated into an "index node" too, > but I think that's another discussion. I don't understand your argument against Electrum here. Dependencies? Come on, that's a matter of software distribution. If that really bothers you I suppose you could contribute to Electrum server so that it has less deps. It doesn't make the protocol worth any less. Although Pieter and I disagree with regard to issue #4351, we agree on wanting to keep (or at least making) bitcoind as lean as possible. Maintaining extra indices for others doesn't fit in there - that's also why the address index patch was not merged. An 'index node' could be a different animal. Wladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
