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by la_fayette 415 days ago
Initially, Bitcoin light wallets were built with bloom filters. So a full node would only propagate transactions, which satisfy a bloom filter, given by light client to that light client. The bloom filter seems not to be privacy preserving, that was one reason why this was abondend by some wallets. However, bitcoinj and wallets built on top of it, might still use this...