.. _sphx_glr_api_gallery_structures_spv:

Light clients
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Verifying a payment with block headers only.


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  <div id='sg-tag-list' class='sphx-glr-tag-list'></div>


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnails">

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Section 8 of the Bitcoin whitepaper describes a client that never downloads blocks. It keeps only the chain of block headers, checks that they link and carry proof of work, and asks a full node for a Merkle proof that a payment is in one of them. Phones run wallets this way.">

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  :doc:`/api/gallery/structures/spv/plot_01_light_clients`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Simplified payment verification: light clients (Nakamoto 2008)</div>
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    </div>


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