Delving Bitcoin
Recently Eric Voskuil shared a benchmark of doing IBD with Libbitcoin versus Bitcoin Core, showing that Libbitcoin could perform IBD 15x faster than Core with -assumevalid. Libbitcoin’s approach is very different from Bitcoin Core. This writeup intends to summarize how Libbitcoin functions for someone familiar with Bitcoin Core’s approach. This discusses the behaviour of upcoming, not yet released, version 4 of Libbitcoin. Libbitcoin is event-based. It will kick-off multiple asynchronous tasks...
