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.

evoskuil21:56

Because they can eventually become stronger. The only limit is that they can't pass through a checkpoint. But there are infinite branches possible below and between checkpoints. And now above is feasible too.

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