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

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How to Distribute Proofs in a Distributed Network

Can you explain a little bit about that idea that instead of just having one centralized proving institution or server, this idea that you might try to distribute it? Yeah. In a if setting, it's quite complicated, because you have to have the entire block verification in a single proof. This takes about 100 gigabyte of RAM or so, which most people just don't have. But we can chunk it up. As I said, we take the 1000 blocks or so and chunk them up into, did I say blocks 1000 transactions? And then we chunk them up in chunks of like 30 or so,. Then they get distributed to everybody who connects to the network, to the proving network, and

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