Could SPV Support a Billion Bitcoin Users? Sizing up a Scaling Claim.
Jameson Lopp
Jul 30, 2017
Jameson Lopp is a software engineer at BitGo, creator of statoshi.info and founder of bitcoinsig.com.
In this opinion piece, Lopp takes a deep dive into claims that it’s safe to remove bitcoin’s block size limit and instead rely on existing “simplified payment verification” (SPV) methods".
How SPV works.
Satoshi described the high-level design for SPV in the bitcoin white paper, though it wasn’t implemented until two years later when Mike Hearn created BitcoinJ."
https://www.coindesk.com/spv-support-billion-bitcoin-users-sizing-scaling-claim
Jameson Lopp
Jul 30, 2017
Jameson Lopp is a software engineer at BitGo, creator of statoshi.info and founder of bitcoinsig.com.
In this opinion piece, Lopp takes a deep dive into claims that it’s safe to remove bitcoin’s block size limit and instead rely on existing “simplified payment verification” (SPV) methods".
How SPV works.
Satoshi described the high-level design for SPV in the bitcoin white paper, though it wasn’t implemented until two years later when Mike Hearn created BitcoinJ."
https://www.coindesk.com/spv-support-billion-bitcoin-users-sizing-scaling-claim
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