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Episode 55: Syncing Old Nodes

Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin

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Older nodes will sink faster post the SegWit activation point. Because they don't verify any of the signatures for SegWit. But it still counts, don't you think? Well, those are kind of a shortcut. Yeah, but I mean, if you want to go that route, I can think of some even scarier proposals where we just, you know, make all the blocks empty for all nodes and just put the real transaction somewhere else. That's definitely a way to make really fast validation. At the first, I think, 200,000 blocks. For the first four years, it doesn't really matter that much which nodes you're running because all blocks were

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