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Recently there have been a number of proposals for bitcoin clients which do not store a copy of the entire block chain. I will refer to all such clients as "thin clients". This page is meant to be a place to try to make sense of the security and trust implications of the various schemes. | Recently there have been a number of proposals for bitcoin clients which do not store a copy of the entire block chain. I will refer to all such clients as "thin clients". This page is meant to be a place to try to make sense of the security and trust implications of the various schemes. | ||
== Thin Client Strategies == | |||
== Other | === Simplified Payment Verification === | ||
This scheme is described in section 8 of the [http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf original bitcoin whitepaper]. | |||
=== BCCAPI === | |||
Clients are vulnerable to a double-spend attack against them by the server. Therefore, they are implicitly trusting it. | |||
=== Electrum === | |||
Clients are vulnerable to a double-spend attack against them by the server. Therefore, they are implicitly trusting it. | |||
== Other == | |||
* A [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28633866 thread] on bitcoin-dev | * A [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28633866 thread] on bitcoin-dev | ||
Revision as of 00:29, 15 January 2012
Recently there have been a number of proposals for bitcoin clients which do not store a copy of the entire block chain. I will refer to all such clients as "thin clients". This page is meant to be a place to try to make sense of the security and trust implications of the various schemes.
Thin Client Strategies
Simplified Payment Verification
This scheme is described in section 8 of the original bitcoin whitepaper.
BCCAPI
Clients are vulnerable to a double-spend attack against them by the server. Therefore, they are implicitly trusting it.
Electrum
Clients are vulnerable to a double-spend attack against them by the server. Therefore, they are implicitly trusting it.
Other
- A thread on bitcoin-dev