Re: [ANN][CLAM] CLAMs, Proof-Of-Chain, Proof-Of-Working-Stake, a.k.a. "Clamcoin"

It's a good idea. Are there any SPV clients that support any altcoins at all?

I've no idea how much work would be involved - I don't have the first idea about how SPV works.

There is an Electrum fork for Litecoin: https://electrum-ltc.org

Someone here claims their fork support a bunch of other coins: https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/23210-ann-electrum-lightweight-client-for-doge-drk-dvc-ftc-ixc-ppc/

I don't think it is that difficult but verification of a PoS coin might require more code changes.

Does Electrum even use SPV? I've read contradictory reports about that.

https://electrum.org/ says "Electrum is fast, because it uses servers that index the Bitcoin blockchain" - does it require special electrum servers, or can it use regular bitcoin nodes?

http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/spv.html tells me what an SPV client is, but doesn't say that Electrum is one. I guess it is, else why include that page in the documentation?

There was an issue on the git repository concerning an Electrum "server".