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Erlay: A performance improvement to the Bitcoin network
- otoburb 7y agoPaper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10518 https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10518 Recent talk by the paper author (not the Medium article author): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUWs00Anpaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUWs00Anpaw Transcript of the talk: https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/london-bitcoin-devs/2019-11-13-gleb-naumenko-p2p-erlay/ https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/london-bitcoin-devs/2019-...
- gus_massa 7y agoIt looks like a 50% reduction of the data exchange rate, but I think it's relevant only for the full nodes, that are currently only 10000 https://bitnodes.earn.com/ https://bitnodes.earn.com/ (I guess the pools servers, some big exchanges, and a few enthusiastic.) It adds more complexity to the software and network, and the reduction is not huge, so I guess it will not be used. Technical question: The "sketch" in the article are "hash"?