I explored SPV clients as a subject from a lot of different resources, but there are a few of things that are keeping me confused:
- I found out that SPV clients have no mempool even though SPV clients are participating in transaction verification. So, what happens when the node verifies a transaction? Is a SPV client checking only its own outgoing transactions?
- Does a transaction that a SPV client is trying to verify have a block hash as a reference where the transaction came from? Is that how a SPV client knows in which block to search for the target transaction when the SPV asks a full node for part of Merkle tree?
- A SPV client asks a full node for hashes inside the Merkle tree, so it can reconstruct the part of the tree it is interested in and checks that way if a transaction is really in the block that the transaction is referring to. Is this correct? And if it is, is there anything more these two clients share?
- If I'm on the right path, how do bloom filters help in increasing of level of privacy since SPV clients still needs to ask a full node for a transaction by its hash?
Thank you.