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SLP484 Robin Linus ZeroSync: Speeding up Bitcoin Initial Block Download (IBD)

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The Future of Cryptocurrency

You could sort of view it like a Bitcoin version of SETI at home, right? Like if people remember that there was like this OG. computer program that people were using and they sort of felt like they were chipping into the search for extraterrestrial life. And I feel like these things show that it is feasible in practice that people are altruistic enough to do some, to do these kinds of computation, just pro bono. Yeah. More you would use our chain state proof and then on top of that, you would have an adapter that allows you to add any kind of computation to it. It might sound a bit abstract, but a concrete example would be, for example,

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