top | item 9179066 (no title) richcollins | 11 years ago There is an iOS wallet that connects directly to the network that downloads the necessary info in seconds:https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/breadwallet-bitcoin-wallet/i... discuss order hn newest deweller|11 years ago This uses Simplfied Payment Verification (SPV).SPV helps with some scalability issues, but doesn't solve them all.From http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/4649/what-is-an-s...:> SPV: A Bitcoin implementation that does not verify everything, but instead relies on either connecting to a trusted node, or puts its faith in high difficulty as a proxy for proof of validity. BitCoinJ is an implementation of this mode.See also:http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/11054/understandi... EC1|11 years ago Wouldn't this be really power draining? Having to sync and download constantly.
deweller|11 years ago This uses Simplfied Payment Verification (SPV).SPV helps with some scalability issues, but doesn't solve them all.From http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/4649/what-is-an-s...:> SPV: A Bitcoin implementation that does not verify everything, but instead relies on either connecting to a trusted node, or puts its faith in high difficulty as a proxy for proof of validity. BitCoinJ is an implementation of this mode.See also:http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/11054/understandi...
deweller|11 years ago
SPV helps with some scalability issues, but doesn't solve them all.
From http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/4649/what-is-an-s...:
> SPV: A Bitcoin implementation that does not verify everything, but instead relies on either connecting to a trusted node, or puts its faith in high difficulty as a proxy for proof of validity. BitCoinJ is an implementation of this mode.
See also:
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/11054/understandi...
EC1|11 years ago