Oct 30, 2024

Concurrent validation and download on the big machine is obviously limited by CPU. But interesting that the CPU (2 dual 32 core 2.1GHz) is able to maintain 50% network utilization. This implies that a 4.2GHz (or 64 dual core 2.1GHz) machine would be able to entirely unblock the network (completing in 1 hour). But it also implies that if we can cut validation cost in half (e.g. with shani [10% 5x faster] and updated secp256k1 [75% ?x faster]) we would achieve the same result.