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Episode 55: Syncing Old Nodes

Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin

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How Much Has Bitcoin Improved?

Bitcoin has made huge improvements over the last few years. One of the biggest is that it no longer requires users to verify their own signatures when they're validating a block. This was done many, many years ago as validating signatures in parallel. Another improvement was switching from Berkeley DB which had all these problems but was also slower than level DB.

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