The Benefits of a UTXO Set for Bitcoin Development

Trevor: I'm able to get a fully synced Bitcoin node from a UTXO set, which doesn't require actually downloading all the block data. Felix Weiss: The big drawback is that you need for some time, you need some bridge nodes because it's a very different way of validating and storing and verifying that UTXO exists at a specific point in time. Trevor: There's famously no address index in Bitcoin core. Felix: But I think it's pretty cool,. We don't know what comes out of it but there has been a lot of work done on it recently.