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Episode 55: Syncing Old Nodes

Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin

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Is This a Problem With the 2013 Blockchain Split?

A lot of the open source libraries are still available somewhere. It gets a bit more, I think that's what Jameson did. He installed like a super old version of Ubuntu and then tried to also find some of the very old packages. Most operating systems that you would be building on will have the most recent versions of the libraries. So this is a problem for say an historian, like a thousand years from now. If you're a historian and you want to really study Bitcoin in the old days, you can have a problem because a 1000 years from now, you'll probably still find the old source code of Bitcoin. But in order to do, but you'll have a very hard

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