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369 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullcount 28 Feb \ on: Major Improvement of Initial Block Download (IBD) bitcoin
I have heard claims that libbitcoin can sync a node in less than 1hr. It appears to be limited only by the internet bandwidth of the node running IBD.
If true, how is that possible? And why is bitcoin-core so slow and relying on skipping validation all together to "improve performance"?
Edit: looks like libbitcoin uses multiple async threads to verify ranges of blocks at once https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/libbitcoin-for-core-people/1222
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 21h
Yeah, my understanding is that Core and libbitcoin do verification differently. Voskuil goes into quite a bit of detail about the differences on Vlad's recent podcast.
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