Forgot to mention: The link I sent is to a branch that is patched to produce 
the filter stats. 
This is the main project and the BIP158 implementation: 
https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin-spv/blob/master/src/blockfilter.rs

Tamas Blummer

> On May 28, 2018, at 20:18, Tamas Blummer <tamas.blum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> A “basic” combined filter would mean up to 0.5 GB filter data per month (with 
> 100% segwith use). Considering that 1 GB is the usual data quota for an entry 
> level mobile phone contract, this could be a too high barrier for adoption.
> 
> I repeated your calculations and produced a slightly different graph that 
> shows the fraction of cummulative filter size to cummulative blockchain size. 
> This is less noisy but otherwise confirms your measurement.
> 
> I think that the data supports separation of filters as a combined filter 
> does not seem to come with significant savings. (basic  size ~= txid + input 
> points + output scripts sizes)
>  
> My calculations are repeatable with:
> 
> https://github.com/tamasblummer/rust-bitcoin-spv/blob/blockfilterstats/src/bin/blockfilterstats.rs
> 
> that is using a Rust implementation of an SPV client built on top of other 
> libraries we work on in the rust-bitcoin GitHub community 
> (https://github.com/rust-bitcoin). Yes, this is a shameles plug for the 
> project hoping to attract more developer.
> 
> Tamas Blummer
> 
> 
> <filters.png>
> 
>> On May 24, 2018, at 05:48, Jim Posen via bitcoin-dev 
>> <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Greg, I've attached a graph including the input scripts.
>> 
>> In the top graph, we can see how the input script filter compares to the 
>> input outpoint filter. It is definitely smaller as a result of address 
>> reuse. The bottom graph shows the ratio over time of combining the input 
>> prev script and output script filters vs keeping them separate. In more 
>> recent blocks, it appears that there are decreasing savings.
>> 
> 

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