
SLP484 Robin Linus ZeroSync: Speeding up Bitcoin Initial Block Download (IBD)
Stephan Livera Podcast
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The Future of Proving Continuously
If you want to have a proof every 10 minutes, then you need someone to prove it every 10 minutes. If you batch proving, like if you prove only like batches of like, let's say 150 blocks or something, that could be a bit more performant than proving every block by itself. You would just try to find a happy, medium compromise there. And I think the more popular it gets, the more people will be altruistic and contribute computational resources to the proving. On the other hand, we can probably expect that the cost of proving drops exponentially, just like everything, like all costs of computation.
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