From rusty at rustcorp.com.au  Thu Jul 30 01:19:15 2015
From: rusty at rustcorp.com.au (Rusty Russell)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:49:15 +0930
Subject: [Lightning-dev] OP_CHECKSPVPROOFVERIFY
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Eric Lombrozo <elombrozo at gmail.com> writes:
> I don?t know if anyone has done any research or published anything in
> this regard, but one of the major issues with bitcoin I?ve been trying
> to solve is how to properly incentivize nodes to construct SPV proofs.

This can almost be done via P2SH, but not quite:

1) OP_CAT is disabled :(
2) The txlen limit might bite, I'd have to do the maths.

Cheers,
Rusty.