Anton, a developer on the bitcoinj maiing list, recently made me aware
[1] of a compatibility issue between segwit and BIP37 (Bloom Filtering).
The issue affects only P2WPKH and the special case of transactions
without change outputs (such as when emptying a wallet). In this case,
neither inputs n
Hi Andreas
Thanks for bringing this up and this seems indeed to be suboptimal.
> I wonder if Bitcoin Core would be willing to extend the BIP37 matching
> rules such that data elements in the witness are also matched against?
Bitcoin Core is not an identity that can be „willing to extend“ (or rej
Why not add the outpoints owned by the wallet to the filter and watch for
those instead of elements in the input script or witness data?
On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 12:12 PM, Jonas Schnelli via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Hi Andreas
>
> Thanks for bringing this up an
As I understand it, the plan is to deprecated and remove BIP37 entirely once
BIP158 is implemented and deployed.
In the meantime, Bitcoin Knots supports the MSG_FILTERED_WITNESS_BLOCK
extension to download witness data. (Note that light clients currently have no
way to verify the witness data i
