Bitcoin full node and query server

Apr 13, 2024

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evoskuil17:02

Synced and confirmed 804,000 blocks in 1.5hrs, which is about 90% of my peak network bandwidth for the data download alone. This is with validation bypassed by milestone as that is not currently parallelized. However confirmation was formerly a very costly exercise in previous libbitcoin versions, since it required updates throughout the store. The new design simply writes a record for each confirmed tx and block so is very fast. This could also be accelerated under checkpoints/milestone because it can be done concurrently.

jungly19:26

I agree that being able to handle more connections is a huge plus.. and setting up all those nodes that you can handle will be a bit hard. Maybe then the test has to be on theb love network, but repeated a good few times. However, we aren't trying to get reproducible numbers, just a good enough ballpark