Open FrankSzendzielarz opened 5 years ago
Never found it until now! Actually I read this paper several months ago.
TL;DR the main idea of this paper is: the client can verify a checkpoint of blockchain without the trust of any third party.
So that when a client joins the network, it can:
Personally I think it's awesome. Now we use a centralized way to prove the checkpoint is valid(only foundation developers can generate checkpoints). A trustless checkpoint is always the goal we pursue
There is a "FlyClient" proposal that seems to offer an alternative approach for constrained resource clients . The document is at the this location .
A review would help us understand