Comment by burgerbrain

16 years ago

Well if IPv4 runs out soon enough and we successfully jump to IPv6, port forwarding in general has the potential to become a thing of the past.

That port forwarding is required isn't a bitcoin bug, it's a NAT bug.

>when I don't have to keep a local copy of every transaction ever made by anyone on the whole system.

How about this part? That sounds like a pretty big flaw in the system.

  • You would need to correlate that information with other type of information to be able to identify the user. As long as you take certain precaution, you should be fine.