#383: Bitcoin: A Work In Progress with Sjors Provoost
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
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The Downside of the Mempool
The downside of the mempool is that you are sending transactions around a lot and this takes a huge, huge amount of bandwidth. So early is an attempt to reduce how much bandwidth it takes to send these, uh, the sent these transactions around to your peers. And I think it does that again with magic. That's the way I would look because I don't fully understand the math either, but it tries to make some sort of, uh, I don't think it's a fingerprint, but some sort of sketch. The math that's required for that is the same math that makes, I believe is the same Math that makes your iPhone recognize your fingerprint without storing the fingerprint.
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