|
|
|
@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ need for the decentralized Bitcoin network. The first of these is that
|
|
|
|
|
it relies on Bob waiting for Alice to commit to her public nonce and
|
|
|
|
|
then Bob giving her a random challenge scalar. In Bitcoin, the spender
|
|
|
|
|
of every transaction needs to be authenticated by thousands of Bitcoin
|
|
|
|
|
full nodes--including future nodes that haven't been started yet but
|
|
|
|
|
full nodes—including future nodes that haven't been started yet but
|
|
|
|
|
whose operators will one day want to ensure the bitcoins they receive
|
|
|
|
|
came from a chain of transfers where every transaction was valid. Any
|
|
|
|
|
Bitcoin node that is unable to communicate with Alice, today or in the
|
|
|
|
|