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John Adler (Fuel Labs, Celestia) on building the fastest modular execution layer (EP.307)

On The Brink with Castle Island

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BitCoin

The single most worrying thing about any chain that strives to be desentialized with something like a theory man bit coin is the size of the state. A you need state if you want to be a full note. The larger the state grows, the more expensive it is to actually do look ups and modifications to the state or otherws. Itoshe slows down the entire chain as the state grows. So it's a very big problem. Is like a big bottle nick that you really don't want to have the huge state s unless you have some better state representation That can alleviate some of these concerns. And we'll discuss what are those shortcomings later on in this interview.

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