Safe Low Bandwidth SPV: A Formal Treatment of Simplified Payment Verification Protocols and Security Bounds

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00740v1
• Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:44:48 GMT
• Title: Safe Low Bandwidth SPV: A Formal Treatment of Simplified Payment Verification Protocols and Security Bounds
• Authors: Craig S Wright,
• Abstract summary: We show that SPV is not only secure under bounded adversarial assumptions but strictly optimal for digital cash systems requiring scalable and verifiable transaction inclusion.<n>This document serves both as a blueprint for secure SPV implementation and a rebuttal of common misconceptions surrounding non-validating clients.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper presents a complete formal specification, protocol description, and mathematical proof structure for Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) as originally defined in the Bitcoin whitepaper \cite{nakamoto2008}. In stark contrast to the misrepresentations proliferated by popular implementations, we show that SPV is not only secure under bounded adversarial assumptions but strictly optimal for digital cash systems requiring scalable and verifiable transaction inclusion. We reconstruct the SPV protocol from first principles, grounding its verification model in symbolic automata, Merkle membership relations, and chain-of-proof dominance predicates. Through rigorous probabilistic and game-theoretic analysis, we derive the economic bounds within which the protocol operates securely and verify its liveness and safety properties under partial connectivity, hostile relay networks, and adversarial propagation delay. Our specification further introduces low-bandwidth optimisations such as adaptive polling and compressed header synchronisation while preserving correctness. This document serves both as a blueprint for secure SPV implementation and a rebuttal of common misconceptions surrounding non-validating clients.

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