Mar 4, 2025

You are making the assumption that the chain will grow making libbitcoin slower. The opposite is true, the hardware grows exponentially faster than the chain. So this is exactly the problem with Core's UTXO set and not with libbitcoin. It has gotten much slower despite hardware growth, and no matter how much hardware you throw at it, it's still very slow. On my 256GB machine, Core takes 24hrs.