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Validation needs to be as light as possible in absolute terms (not just relative to the computation) for DDOS protection. An attacker could spam you with fake b
by murbard2 10y ago
Validation needs to be as light as possible in absolute terms (not just relative to the computation) for DDOS protection. An attacker could spam you with fake blocks and force you to compute expensive hashes to realize they are fake. Also consider the case of building a lightweight hardware device to act as an SPV client.