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Re: DINOFELIS is the actual troll
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dinofelis
on 05/02/2018, 12:34:14 UTC
This is why I enacted a policy of not arguing with him.

That would be a good thing to do.  You do not contribute anything useful in this technical discussion, which is about the security of the SPV protocol,  which in itself is a crucial element in the scalability of block chain systems, and which is related to the subject of this thread.

Your few interactions were not of any utility in the advancement of the subject, and essentially ad hominem.

As it stands, the SPV protocol is a cryptographically secure way to know whether a transaction is part of the actual consensus block chain with a very light network overhead.  The counter arguments given by achow101 and by a few others necessitates that the current bitcoin block chain contains deep down, double spends, or necessitates an attack that would also trick a full node, and that in any case, would require a huge PoW effort on the part of the attacker.