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Episode 55: Syncing Old Nodes

Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin

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Introduction

Shors: We're going to discuss a concept that was described in a blog post by Jameson Lop. He actually published a couple of blog posts about backwards compatibility. And he's basically done that again, probably slightly different, but the same idea and with more recent versions. Shors: So back in 2017, what I did was I took a couple of Amazon AWS machines and install different versions of Bitcoin Core on those machines,. And then just have them sink the Bitcoin blockchain as far as possible. Then I would just measure how long it would take and those pretty big differences. Live from Utrecht, this is Bitcoin Explained.

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