Oct 1, 2026

This gap analysis shows it clearly. We raced ahead in the first few minutes, and Core was actually catching up after that, until it peaked and starting declining. Its design is optimized for the low end, but as blocks get big, and the utxo set gets big, that advantage disappears. The vertical line shows the point at which the cache hit the limit and it dumped the whole thing and started over cold. The sudden dip near 712k is a libbitcoin window step.