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

Stephan Livera Podcast

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The Implications of Fully Verifying Transactions

In the most simple way you would just re-sync, like you would just sync the last week of blocks. But when we make that UTxO set commitment more sophisticated, then it would be possible to just download the delta of the UTxo set commitment and just download what's new. And there are some concerns that this might become a problem at some point. I think it's not that big of an issue because as long as they are honest and full notes, they will never go into a state for which they don't have the block. As long as there's at least one honest note that is sharing the blocks, then there is no data availability problem. Also, there

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