Bitcoin full node and query server

Dec 11, 2024

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fiatjaf _22:19
is there an explanation somewhere of what you're doing?
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cguida01:46
https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/libbitcoin-for-core-people/1222
Delving Bitcoin
Libbitcoin for Core people
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...