BIP-64
getutxo message.
Proposed a message letting light wallets ask a node whether particular coins are still unspent.
Every full node keeps a list of unspent coins to catch double spending. This message would have let apps without that list ask a node directly, for example to check a pledge had not been spent elsewhere. Nothing proved the answers were true, so a dishonest node could give wrong results.
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