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You've got a point, the root of the tree could be made available to the main charting sites.. or even weekly written into the blockchain. As for the negative
by infruset 13y ago
You've got a point, the root of the tree could be made available to the main charting sites.. or even weekly written into the blockchain.
As for the negative values, I wasn't thinking of robbing anyone, but just pretending you are solvent when really you're not. I'm not sure I see what you mean by "swap out which customers you're robbing", could you expand?
- nullc 13y agoE.g. say you have two customers with a balance of 100. You report the total is 100— so 100 BTC has gone missing. When customer A logs in you give them one root and show them their balance (and B has a balance of 0). When customer B logs in— oops balances just update— you show them a new root, and in that one B has a balance of 100. So you need to pin the commitments strongly enough so that the prover can't swap them out at will.
- infruset 13y agoThanks, I get it now. Hadn't thought of that. Of course, if many people were connected at the same time, this would quickly become perilous gymnastics for the exchange.