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Episode 65: Bitcoin Core 24.0

Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin

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How to Download Headers From Peers

When your node first starts up it is going to find peers which we discussed in earlier episode And then it's going to download headers from peers. Every block has a header which is essentially the hash of the block itself, right? Plus a little bit of extra info that for example contains the timestamp and the amount of proof of work Well, the amount ofProof of Work follows in the hash, but yeah It's basically hash plus some extra info. Yes So it's not the whole block. Okay, so first you start downloading Not all of the blocks, but you start downloading the headers, right? The idea is that you first want to make sure that the chain that you're following has

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