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.
evoskuil20:13
Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Checkpoints prevented an attack where a node could mine many many low-difficulty blocks from an early point in the blockchain and serve those blocks to syncing nodes who would see their disks fill ...