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There’s still the issue that you need to sync to the full history and look at all the outputs to see if they’re yours right? That’s a real challenge as a light
by baby 6y ago
There’s still the issue that you need to sync to the full history and look at all the outputs to see if they’re yours right? That’s a real challenge as a light client (which most people are).
- ianmiers 6y agoFor zcash currently, yes. But for the underling tech, no. You scan the blockchain in Zcash to be notified of a payment. But the sender could just as easily send you an out of band message with everything you need to know to spend the money and find the payment. There's even a draft spec for doing it for Zcash. https://github.com/zcash/zips/pull/420/files#diff-635022fa4a51619d899746b1d35f47790cbee665059c85d22cc12b64fd77c750 https://github.com/zcash/zips/pull/420/files#diff-635022fa4a...
- tromp 6y agoNot in Mimblewimble coins where sender and receiver must interact to build a transaction. So there's no need to scan unless you just built a tx that is awaiting confirmation.