AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
4min chapter
#1 - Vitalik Buterin on Starting New Countries, Upgrading Ethereum, and Improving Yourself
The Network State Podcast
The Quadratic Attack Issue With Hashing in Bitcoin
Someone discovered a bug that would cause it to process a particular type of transaction much more slowly. A quadratic bug actually did happen in Bitcoin, right? So one of the justifications for not increasing the Bitcoin block size back when the BitcoinBlockSize debate had happened. In the Ethereum case, it was it had to do with the implementation and way that the system handled recursive calls.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode